As the saying goes, for the three generations of officials, they know how to dress and eat, the waterfront wharf outside Desheng Gate, the servants of the Jia family are already waiting, Xue Pan looked at the clothes of these people and talked, just like other people, polite and courteous for several weeks, but did not grovel, after all, the family background of the Jia family is like this, why anyone, and the people under the turn to show a servile face, Xue Pan and others got off the boat, Rongguo Mansion sent a sedan chair carriage and a cart to pull luggage for a long time, Xue Pan often heard his mother say, This Rongguo Mansion is different from other families, the person who came is Zhou Rui, the companion of the Wang family, the aunt of Jiafu, with a white face, a green coat and a small hat, and a very shrewd and capable appearance, and when Xue Wang and the others got off the boat, he hurriedly kowtowed and asked for peace, "Little Zhou Rui asked for peace for his aunt's wife." ”

Zhou Rui is Wang's companion, that is to say, he also came out of the Wang family, sure enough, Xue Wang's knew Zhou Rui, "It turns out that you came, Zhou Rui," Xue Wang's smiled, "My sister sent you?" ”

"Mrs. Hui's words were sent by Mrs. Hui," Zhou Rui said with a smile, "Mrs. learned from my uncle that Mrs. Aunt was here today, and she was very happy, so she hurriedly sent a small one to pull a carriage and horse to pick up Mrs. Aunt, Mrs. said that no matter what, she was going to live at home, and she didn't need to go anywhere else." ”

Xue Wang glanced at Xue Pan proudly, "Sister is too polite, I'm going to bother my sister there." ”

"Please be considerate of the small ones," Zhou Rui said with a smile, "If this errand is done well, the wife will reward the small ones, if you don't do it well, I'm afraid that I will be beaten when I go back." ”

"My sister is a bodhisattva, where will I beat your board?" Xue Wang said with a smile, the group abandoned the big ship, and someone else prepared a carriage to load the goods, Zhou Rui originally prepared several large carts to prepare to load things, but he didn't expect the Xue family to be very pompous, seeing that the objects on the ship could not be put down, he secretly smacked his tongue and hurriedly sent more carriages to come, Xue Pan said no, "Some are all goods, ready to be sent to Jingzhao Mansion to sell, here unloaded and sent out directly, but there is no need to move to the house." ”

Xue Pan got into the carriage, Baochai and his mother sat in a sedan chair, and entered the city from the Desheng Gate, in the end, the place where the heavenly family lives, the prosperity of its street market, the prosperity of the population, since it is different from other places, and walked for half a day, suddenly saw two big stone lions squatting in the north of the street, three beast head gates, and there are more than a dozen people in gorgeous crowns and beautiful clothes sitting in front of the door. But the main gate is not opened, only the east and west corner doors are entered. There is a plaque above the main gate, and the plaque is written in five big words, "Ningguo Mansion", this is Ningguo Mansion, the Jia family has one door and two dukes, and the end is very prominent, and the long house is this Ning Guofu.

Go west again, not far away, there are still three gates, and it is Rongguo Mansion. But he did not enter the main gate, but entered the west corner gate. The palanquin man carried him in, and walked a shot, and when he was about to turn, he stopped and withdrew. Xue Pan got off the carriage, saw that his mother and sister did not get off the sedan chair, the mother-in-law behind had all got off the sedan chair, caught up, and changed three or four clothes and hats to be seventeen or eighteen-year-old little girl came up, and lifted the sedan chair again, the mother-in-law stepped down and fell in front of a hanging flower door, Xue Pan touched his nose, followed the head into the hanging flower door, the small girls withdrew, the mother-in-law came up to open the sedan curtain, and helped Xue Baochai and others get off the sedan chair. Xue Wang's two people hold the hands of the mother-in-law, enter the weeping flower door, on both sides is the hand-copying verandah, among them is the hall, there is a large insertion screen of red sandalwood shelf marble on the ground, but do not enter the inner room, just follow the mothers, then turn to the east, through a hall of east and west, after the south hall, the large courtyard in the instrument gate, the five large main rooms above, the two sides of the wing room deer top ear room drill mountain, extending in all directions, magnificent.

There were already several girls dressed in red and green standing in front of the main room, and when they saw Xue Wang and others coming, they hurriedly smiled and said, "Mrs. Aunt has arrived!" So hurriedly surrounded a few people into the main room, everyone into the hall, looked up and saw a red gold Kowloon green land plaque, the plaque is written with three big characters, is "Rongxi Hall", there is a line of small characters: "a certain year, month and day, the book is given to Rongguo Gong Jia Yuan", and there are "the treasure of thousands of Chenhan". Xue Pan was surprised, this is the royal pen, Xue Pan's family can not find such a piece and a half of the royal pen book things, the big red sandalwood carving case, set up three feet high green bronze tripod, hanging with the ink dragon painting, one side is Jin Yi, one side is the glass ニ.

"The sun and the moon are shining on the seat, and the front of the hall is dark and smoky."

The following line of small characters reads: "The younger brother of the same township attacked the king of Dong'an County, Mu Yingbai, wrote a handbook." ”

This is the main hall of the serious inner room, but generally speaking, it is to entertain the most noble lady and so on will be placed here, it turns out that Mrs. Wang often lives and sits and rests, and is not in this main room, only in the three ear rooms on the east side of this main room, so the old lady leads the Xue family into the east door. The big kang near the window is covered with scarlet felt, and the front is set up with a big red money python backrest, a stone blue money python pillow, and an autumn fragrant money python mattress. Set up a pair of plum blossom lacquer small tables on both sides. On the left there are a few Wang Ding spoon incense boxes, and on the right there are a few Ru kiln beauties, which are inserted with fresh flowers, and tea bowls and phlegm boxes. On the four chairs in the west of the ground, there are silver and red flowered chairs, and there are four pairs of foot pedals underneath. On both sides of the chair, there is also a pair of high tables, several tea bowls and vases of flowers. The rest of the furnishings need not be detailed. The old ladies asked Xue Wang's kang to sit, but there were two brocade mattresses on the edge of the kang, Xue Wang's smiled, "My sister is not here, how can I sit on the seat?" So he sat down on the left, and a maid wearing a red shoulder and a green skirt brought a few little girls to serve tea, "Mrs. is here with the ancestors, but I don't know when it will be good, please sit down with my aunt." ”

Xue Wang's nodding was silent, Xue Pan sat down and looked left and right, it was very fresh, this Rongguo Mansion and the Xue family were very different, the Xue family was not many, Xue Pan himself was very informal, the head of the family was used to being casual, but this Jiafu was highly hierarchical, and the servants were not smiling, but Mu Ran was like a nerd, but it was another scene, the girls went out with tea, only the girl stood outside the compartment and lowered her hand to listen to the instructions, Xue Pan saw that there was no one left and right, and quietly asked her mother, "Aunt is married to the second master, right?" I heard that there is still an old man, so why does my aunt live in this main house? ”

"What nonsense? Talkative! Xue Wang glared at Xue Pan, "Is this the place to speak?" Drink your tea! ”