The Red Chamber: My Stunning Confidante with a Variety of Styles

After sending off the girls, Jia Jue groaned.

To change the marriage between Yingchun and himself is not something that can be done by ordinary means.

After all, the inability to love freely is the general trend of this era, and it is extremely difficult for him to go against the trend.

Fortunately, this is not in a hurry.

Marriage in this era has a set of procedures to go, namely: three books and six rituals.

The three books are: Appointment Letter, Ritual Letter, and Welcome Letter.

The six rites are: accepting, asking for the name, accepting, accepting the levy, asking for an appointment, and welcoming in person.

Now the two only have the initial intention, and to start this process, he still has enough time to plan well.

After all, what he wanted was not just not marrying Sun Shaozu's cousin, but to have the right to marry in his own hands.

Before that, there was only one thing he had to do, and that was to wait.

Waiting for the results of the county test.

Many things, with fame, are completely different.

So for the next few days, he rested in Linglong Xiaozhu with peace of mind, talking with a few maids every day, and teasing Mengzi with Wang Xifeng and Li Wan, who came to visit from time to time, but it was quite comfortable.

As time goes on, the Mid-Autumn Festival is getting closer and closer, and Jia Jue also realizes the difference of the Mid-Autumn Festival in this era.

A few days before the Mid-Autumn Festival, the festive atmosphere came out. In the small courtyards of Jia’s house, lanterns were hung up. Most of these lanterns were made by the skilled maids themselves. There are also lantern riddles, which are very interesting.

At the same time, relatives and friends will also present moon cakes, fruits and other items to each other, which is extremely lively.

Jia Jue has received a lot of moon cakes and fruits in the past few days, and almost all of the grandma and girls from Jia's house gave him.

Of course, he also gave back a lot of moon cakes and fruits in return for gifts. Moreover, the moon cakes he gave were all good things that could not be eaten in this era, which surprised many girls. Some of them were delicious, and even came to him every day.

During this period, Jia Zheng also visited him once. On the one hand, he visited him, and on the other hand, he encouraged him to guard against arrogance and impetuousness, and to study well. He also wanted to let him continue to study in Guozijian after the Mid-Autumn Festival.

For him, Jia Zheng really placed high hopes on him, and Jia Jue could see that he looked bored and haggard, thinking that he had been run over by Mrs. Wang a lot these days.Jia Jue couldn't explain too much, so he could only nod in response.

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Time moved forward slowly, and it came to the day of August [-]th.

As the most important traditional festival in the hot summer, Jia's residence also attaches great importance to it. Not only did all kinds of lanterns hang up, but also the clansmen who went out came back one after another to spend this reunion day together.

To this end, Jia's house specially arranged a venue for the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet.

During the Youshi, when the lanterns first came on, the Jia residence was very lively.

In the inner courtyard, a group of girls were watching lanterns and guessing riddles.

"Sister Lin, come and see this lantern, it's very lifelike." Jia Baoyu came to a lantern and said with a smile to Lin Daiyu.

Lin Daiyu glanced at the lantern and nodded lightly, not seeming interested.

She glanced at everyone, and suddenly felt a little lonely. On the Mid-Autumn Festival reunion night, she could not be reunited with her father.

Since her mother's death, she has come to the capital, separated from her father, and it is inevitable that she will be hurt at this time.

Seeing her expression, Jia Baoyu scratched his ears and cheeks anxiously, but there was no way to solve it.

At this moment, Shi Xiangyun's voice suddenly sounded: "Sisters, come and see, why is this lantern riddle so strange?"

Her words caught Lin Daiyu's attention. She walked to Shi Xiangyun's side and looked at the lantern riddle in her hand, only to see it read:
Beat the dog to see the owner, beat the tiger to see what?
After Lin Daiyu looked at it, she frowned slightly. She thought for a while, but found nothing.

Not only her, but other girls also looked blank.

In desperation, they all turned to Li Wan for help, because she wrote these lantern riddles.

Seeing this, Li Wan covered his mouth and chuckled: "When you beat a dog, it depends on the owner, and when you beat a tiger, it depends on your courage."

Everyone was stunned when they heard the words, but then they all laughed. Even Lin Daiyu couldn't help but smile.

Jia Baoyu was overjoyed when he saw this. He saw that this lantern riddle seemed to be able to make Lin Daiyu laugh, so he hurriedly began to rummage. After only reading a few, he quickly said:
"Come and see this question."

The girls gathered around, but saw the riddle written on it:

If there is a car, the son is driving, and the young lady is driving, who owns the car?
Seeing this, the girls all started to think, Xue Baochai said tentatively:

"If it is the young lady, even if the son is a son, he is only a driver."

Shi Xiangyun shook his head: "This is not necessarily the case. The son is only here to pick up the young lady. I think it should be the son."

"If you want me to tell me, this car is borrowed, neither the lady's nor the son's." Wang Xifeng laughed.

All the women expressed their opinions, but no one failed to convince the other party. In the end, they had to look at Li Wan for help.

Li Wan couldn't help laughing: "This car is 'If'."

This answer made all the girls stunned, as if they were a little confused, but Lin Daiyu's beautiful eyes lit up and smiled:
"'If there is a car', it turns out that this 'if' is a person."

All the girls suddenly realized, and they all laughed.

Jia Baoyu saw Lin Daiyu's smile even more, and his heart was valid, so he hurriedly continued to look for lantern riddles, and soon, he found another question:
Which bird is most afraid of water?

But this question made everyone have a hard time. In my impression, poultry seems to be not very afraid of water.

Rao is the most astute Lin Daiyu also frowned slightly.

After thinking hard for a while, they had no choice but to look at Li Wan again for help.

The corner of Li Wan's mouth turned up slightly: "The answer is: chicken."

Lin Daiyu wondered: "Why is this? Don't the chickens have feathers?"

Li Wan glanced at her, and suddenly burst out laughing: "Just because, the machine (chicken) cannot be lost (wet)."

The girls were stunned again, but then they all burst into laughter, even Lin Daiyu laughed out loud, the flower branches trembling in a very touching way.

This scene made Jia Baoyu elated, and he was finally able to make Sister Lin laugh.

After the girls laughed, Lin Daiyu asked Li Wan, "Sister-in-law, these questions are so weird and often unexpected, I'm afraid it's a 'bad embryo', right?"

Li Wan heard the words and laughed again: "The person who asked the question, if he knew that you said that to him, I'm afraid he would go to the bed and lie on his side again."

A "side sleeping" made everyone understand that it was Jia Jue who came up with the question.

Indeed, Li Wan came to Jia Jue to discuss after learning that she was in charge of lantern riddles, but Jia Jue did not expect that Jia Jue would give her these many strange but interesting questions.

"Pfft!" Lin Daiyu couldn't help laughing, her beautiful eyes were full of smiles and rays of light, "So it's the third brother, he's not a good person."

Boom!

Jia Baoyu, who was beside him, heard the words and felt a thunderclap. He thought that he had made fun of Sister Lin through his efforts. It turned out that it was Jia Jue who really made Lin Daiyu laugh!

Thanks to him actively looking for questions for Lin Daiyu, this is actually a wedding dress for this third Jia!
Looking at Lin Daiyu's pretty face and smiling appearance, Jia Baoyu shouted in his heart:

Sister Lin, look at me, I am a good person!