Chapter 324: Rose Nitrate Incident
Chunying is Jia Cong's eldest maid. After he started to attend clan school, Jia She specially assigned her to Jia Cong.
Chunying is very capable and loyal to Jia Cong, but like everyone else in the Rongguo Mansion, she regards Jia Baoyu as a phoenix egg, the future heir of the Rongguo Mansion.
Chunying looked down on Jia Huan, but she would not speak ill of Jia Huan in front of Jia Cong.
This is one of the reasons why Jia Cong tolerated Chunying taking him with him.
He is quite satisfied with this big maid.
Even if he doesn't like some words, he will still listen to them.
Chunying asked Jia Cong to please Jia Baoyu, but Jia Cong occasionally listened to her words and did what she said, but most of the time he was perfunctory.
This time, Jia Cong listened to Chun Ying's words, and naturally it was Jia Cong who wanted to enter the Grand View Garden.
Jia Huan: "Then let me go with you."
"Okay!" Jia Cong jumped up happily, "We will leave after seeing Brother Bao and go to the garden to play by ourselves."
Jia Huan said: "Okay."
Jia Cong: "Just in time to show you, Third Brother, my recent cultivation achievements."
Jia Huan: "Okay."
The two of them went to Yihongyuan together.
Jia Baoyu did not welcome the arrival of Jia Huan and Jia Cong, and would not turn them away. After saying a few words to the two, his attention turned to the maid.
Chunyan was asking for something from Fang Guan. It turned out that Xin Guan had contracted apricot scar and wanted some rose salt for rubbing.
Fang Guan handed the rose saltpeter to Jia Baoyu, and the fresh aroma spread to the noses of the three young people. It smelled very good.
Jia Cong sniffed and said, "Can rose saltpetre cure Chun Fei? Then I'll go back and talk to Chun Ying and ask her to find a way to buy some."
Jia Baoyu knew that Chun Ying was a beautiful and gentle maid, and Jia Baoyu had a good impression of Chun Ying.
He asked: "Is Chun Ying also Chang Chun Fei?"
Jia Cong nodded.
Jia Baoyu: "I don't know how long it will take to buy it. Let Fang Guanyun give you some. You can take it back and let Chunying wipe it. If it's not enough, come back to me."
After giving it to one brother, it was hard not to give it to the other brother. Jia Baoyu asked Fang Guanyun to give two portions of rose saltpeter to Jia Cong and Jia Huan.
Fangguan didn't want to give her good things to others, but Jia Baoyu told her, so she had to do it.
She thought that Jia Cong's rose saltpeter was for Chun Ying, and Jia Huan would not give it to anyone else if he took the rose saltpeter, so she simply used jasmine powder to pass it off as rose saltpeter and gave it to Jia Huan.
Jia Huan didn't care about the rose saltpeter and jasmine powder at all. He stuffed it into his sleeves, said goodbye to Jia Baoyu, and left Yihongyuan with Jia Cong.
The two of them had a good time playing in the yard, and then they parted ways and went back to their own yards.
Jia Huan returned to his yard and found Aunt Zhao waiting for him in his room.
After Mrs. Wang left, Aunt Zhao was very happy. She didn't have to go to Mrs. Wang's place every day to follow the rules. She could go wherever she wanted. She was extremely comfortable.
When Aunt Zhao saw Jia Huan coming back, she took him and started talking bad things about Mrs. Wang and Jia Baoyu, and encouraged Jia Huan to seize the Rongguo Mansion.
Jia Huan took out his ears, took out the paper bag containing jasmine powder from his sleeve, and handed it to Aunt Zhao, hoping to use it to scare away Aunt Zhao.
"?, I also got a pack of good ones for you to wipe your face with. This rose saltpeter is stronger than the silver saltpeter you usually use."
Aunt Zhao was a good judge of goods. When she opened the paper package, she recognized that it was only jasmine powder and not rose saltpeter. She thought that her son had been tricked by someone.
Aunt Zhao couldn't help but get angry: "Where did you get this thing?"
Jia Huan hadn't connected the scene in front of him with the plot he had seen, so he said casually: "I went to Yihongyuan today to greet Baoyu. It happened that Chunyan asked Fangguan for rose saltpetre, so Baoyu asked Fangguan to share some with me and
Cong'er."
When Aunt Zhao heard that it was someone from Jia Baoyu's courtyard, she became even more angry.
Jia Baoyu looked down on their mother and son, so they had no choice but to recognize him.
Why do the maids in Jia Baoyu's courtyard look down on them?
Aunt Zhao: "You are a serious master, so what kind of cats and dogs dare to bully you? It's just a dog relying on human power. Just wait, I will go to her to settle the score and vent your anger."
After saying that, he picked up the paper bag and flew towards the garden.
Only then did Jia Huan realize that he had encountered a plot point.
He really didn't want to care about women fighting, but unfortunately Aunt Zhao was his own mother, and he was not the careless Jia Huan who was raised crookedly in the original work, so he naturally had to take care of her.
Jia Huan could only get up and go to the Grand View Garden.
Aunt Zhao moved quickly, but Jia Huan moved even faster. When Aunt Zhao met Ou Guan's godmother Xia Po on the road, Jia Huan stopped Aunt Zhao when Po Xia added fuel to the fire.
Jia Huan forcibly dragged Aunt Zhao back to her yard.
Aunt Zhao was so angry that she called Jia Huan a coward. She was being teased, but she swallowed her anger.
Jia Huan sighed: "Auntie, you are half a master, why bother arguing with her, a maid, and you have lowered your status in vain."
Aunt Zhao said angrily: "This little hoof is trampling on you, how can I let her go?"
Jia Huan said to Aunt Zhao: "Auntie, this official is so arrogant that he doesn't even look down on a serious master. Do you think my wife will tolerate her? Think about Qingwen who was kicked out before."
After hearing this, Aunt Zhao lost some of her anger and said, "I don't know how long it will take for my wife to drive them out."
Jia Huan smiled: "It won't be long."
The maids around Jia Baoyu are all Mrs. Wang's spies, and many of them dislike Fang Guan, and are even more jealous of Jia Baoyu's indulgence towards Fang Guan.
This official is in bad luck, and it won't be long.
In order to calm Aunt Zhao's anger, Jia Huan had to bleed herself, so she gave Aunt Zhao ten taels of silver and asked her to buy the best rose saltpeter.
Aunt Zhao was made happy by her son, and then she returned to her yard.
However, the fact that she wanted to settle accounts with Fangguan had already spread in Rongguo Mansion and also reached Yihong Courtyard.
She Yue frowned and reprimanded Fang Guan: "Why do you go to Hu Nong Huan, the third master? No matter what, he is still the master of the house, and you are just a maid."
Fang Guan defended: "Isn't there no rose salt? I can only use jasmine powder instead."
She Yue: "If you don't have rose salt, why don't you ask us for it? Will we still give it to you?"
Fangguan: "But you also need to use it. How can I have the nerve to ask you for such a good thing?"
Jia Baoyu stood on Fangguan's side and spoke for Fangguan: "Fangguan is still young and doesn't think things through well. You just need to teach her well in the future. Besides, isn't Aunt Zhao trying to calm things down? Don't stop.
It’s Fang Guan’s fault.”
Fangguan, supported by Jia Baoyu, stuck out his tongue proudly.
She Yue lowered her eyes to hide the dissatisfaction and anger in her eyes.
The other maids also had dissatisfaction on their faces.
Chapter completed!