Jin Yuliangyuan of the Red Chamber

Shuihong frowned: "So she is the queen of Ziwei Sheren Xue Gong." "So," she understood why he frowned, "This Xue Gong used to provide food and supplies for the army. After the preliminary decision, he was appointed a first-class duke, but now that so many generations have passed, I am afraid there are not many good children, right?"

"Well," Shuihong said lightly, "now there is only one son in his family's direct line. He was sentenced by Yun Teng for robbing women's daughters and killing people before, but later I heard that he restrained himself a bit. He also has a younger sister who is just like this. Xue Baochai, her mother is Baoyu's mother's younger sister, and that's probably how she got her here. Otherwise, she's eighteen this year, how could she be selected?" He explained to his wife, "I guess Baoyu can't be pushed by human favors. , so I mentioned it to Ah Rong." He believed that Baoyu would not be a selfish person.

"This family has a big heart!" Du Yueyan suddenly had a bad impression of her, "No matter if you are an imperial merchant, you are still a merchant after all, with a low status. What about Rong? I really don’t know the heights of the sky and the depths of the earth, but I still want to fly on the branches and become a phoenix!” Shui Hong took it for granted: “I didn’t know it just now, but now I know, even if I want to come to Rong, I don’t like it.”

"Then stay here." Du Yueyan said.

"It's better to wait until I ask Baoyu. Anyway, there is no rush, it's late enough today, let's go to bed first." Shuihong said, maybe she can consider letting her enter the palace as a maid.

Baochai didn't know that she had left such an image in the hearts of the emperor and empress, and she was still looking forward to the emperor's arrival in Jinling!Doesn't she think that the emperor's coming is a trivial matter?Is it that she can see as a commoner girl if she wants to?I have to say that not everyone has the luck of Baoyu, Daiyu, and Jialian to meet and have friendship with the most powerful family in the world today.

After another day, basically everything that should be arranged has been arranged, and now Shui Hong and Shui Rong are free, and they specially sit and chat with Baoyu and Jia Lian.

The exam was about to start in a few days, but Baoyu stopped reading. He just wandered around the garden admiring the scenery, and even played with Daiyu Jiaheng and the others.Jia Lian felt like that, and no longer hugged the book all day, just read a few chapters before going to bed.

When Shuihong saw them, he laughed and said, "I haven't seen you for a while, it seems that everyone has a plan!" Baoyu Jialian smiled and said nothing.Shui Rong said: "We've already made arrangements, and I'm here today mainly to explain to you." Seeing Shuihong nodding to him, he explained the arrangement of the examination room, the examination process, and precautions to them in detail, and they took it seriously. listen.After explaining all that in one go, Shui Rong's mouth was dry, so he hurriedly picked up a cup of tea and drank half of it.

Shui Hong waited for Shui Rong to finish speaking before laughing: "Can you hear me clearly? I can only do this, and it's all up to you when you get inside. When marking the papers, the first pass is read by the chief judges. Those are old pedants, and it is not easy to get past them, of course this is what I ordered."

Then seeing Baoyu looking at him with a "you are so bad" expression on his face, he couldn't help laughing: "Don't look at me like that! I said that I will not show favoritism, so naturally I must be fair. Only after passing their test It will be handed over to me. Let me tell you first, I won’t release water because of our friendship, you have to remember it.”

Jia Lian said: "That's natural, even if you want to release water, I won't appreciate it. Since you want to take the exam, you have to rely on real skills. What kind of man is cheating!" Baoyu also said: "That's right! This is the best, let me try it too. Try how many catties you have."

Hearing this, Shui Hong clapped his hands and laughed: "Great kindness! Then I'll wait to read your papers!" After talking about business, Shui Hong thought of Xue Baochai, and asked them: "By the way, I met Xue Baochai a few days ago. It's a portrait, it looks okay, I was going to point it to Ah Rong..." Before finishing speaking, Shui Rong jumped up: "Hey! Don't! I haven't even seen her face! Don't, don't !"

Shui Hong smiled and said: "You should listen to me! I planned to do so, but I saw that she came from the imperial merchant family, so she was a bit... So let it go. But I also know that it is Baoyu and Ah Rongti. Yes, I'll come to ask you, if... you're considering whether to stay or not."

What he said was secretive, but Baoyu understood what he meant.Because it is Baoyu's face to put it bluntly. If Baoyu has a good relationship with them, Baoyu will inevitably be suspected of not doing his best after being dismissed. He is not clear about the situation and is not good at Baoyu's face.

Baoyu understood his heart, thought for a while, and said truthfully: "Actually, although she is my aunt's daughter, we don't have much friendship at ordinary times. You also know that I take care of Sister Lin, and there is still a I can take care of others. It's just an ordinary friendship." After hearing this, Shuihong knew it in his heart, and he heard Baoyu continue:

"Originally, she was preparing to run for the election several years ago, so she lived in our house, but in those years, the emperor was not in good health and was not elected. After the emperor ascended the throne, he kept mourning for three years, and this has dragged on until now. I heard that Finally, there was a draft, and they were probably anxious, and they were unwilling to let go of this opportunity. They found out that I had some friendship with the prince, so they called me back to the mansion. My mother and aunt told me personally After all, I am an elder, so I can't refuse, so I just said that I just have to try, and I can't control whether it succeeds or not."

"Then, based on your understanding, how is this girl?" Shui Hong asked after hearing it.This time Baoyu was a bit... the first time to say bad things about people behind their backs, but it wasn't really bad things, it was just telling the truth.So he paused and said: "We don't have a deep friendship either, just say a few words occasionally, you just have to hear it, don't take it too seriously."

Seeing that Shuihong was still smiling, Jia Lian waited to see a good show, so he had to say: "She is my cousin. In terms of appearance, although she is a little plump, she is still pretty good. She is usually like a member of the family. The little girls said that she is very generous and easy-going, she is very pleasing to the elders in the family, and she plays well with her sisters, she is exquisite and does not leak water."

Shuihong started to worry about it, all in all, he is a person who can behave, speak, understand people's hearts, and have a plan.Since there is no friendship, there is no need to worry about it, just brush it.

Several people talked a few more words, and Shuihong said that he was going to find his wife and children: "It's hard to be free, so go and spend more time with them."Only Shui Rong was alone, and he couldn't get in the way of others' eyes, so he went back to his room to sleep aggrieved.

On the way back, Baoyu asked Jia Lian: "Hey, what I just said is not particularly subjective, right?" Jia Lian gave him a white look: "Isn't that called thick? Everything comes out! How much do you hate her?" Baoyu was dissatisfied: "I'm just telling the truth! Do you dare to say that she is not like that? Do you think she is good?" Jia Lian smiled and said, "I don't have any feelings for her, but I see this This time, she probably won't be chosen."

"That's none of my business, I've done what I have to do." "That's right! You've done it all, you can make up for it!" Jia Lian was cheerful. But I definitely didn't like her. Seeing that she was unlucky, I felt a little gloated in my heart if I didn't say it.

He went to stay with Sister Feng's children, Baoyu had been in the mansion for a long time, and he decided to relax when the exam was approaching, so he went to look for Daiyu, probably she was getting bored too.

Daiyu just came back from the empress, the empress seems to be very busy today, she and Sister Feng chatted for a while after paying their respects, the emperor sent someone to tell her to go over, and they hurriedly left.Just when she was feeling bored, Baoyu said she wanted to go out to play, and she naturally wanted it.After discussing it, the two went back to change their clothes.

Baoyu prefers black ones recently, so he asked a tailor to make a box of black robes, and now he found a pure black satin with flame patterns embroidered on it, a white jade hollowed-out nine-dragon buckle belt around his waist, and a jasper embossed robe. gown angle.He has roughly measured that he has grown to 1.7 meters five now, almost 1.8 meters. After wearing it like this, he looks like a dark and strong pine tree. With a folding fan, he is really personable and domineering. Introverted, people can't take their eyes off.

Daiyu is wearing a sapphire blue gown, Qingwen has her hair tied back, a black jade hairpin is inserted, and a black belt embroidered with golden auspicious clouds is tied around her waist, making her face look like a crown jade and her lips painted red She looks like a handsome son-in-law, she is a hair away from Baoyu now, and the two stand together harmoniously and seductively.

Baoyu went over and picked Daiyu's chin with a fan, made a frivolous look, and said with a smile: "Little girl, come and give me a smile!" Daiyu smiled at him with her white teeth: "Where are you from?" You bastard, get out of the way for this girl!"

Baoyu laughed, opened the fan and shook Daiyu, and walked out with Daiyu in his arms: "Hehe, let's go eat and drink spicy food with the young master!" Now they are all dressed up by men, so let him go.

The two of them left the mansion, because the royal driver was here, so the nearby streets were under martial law, and they walked for a long time before they saw the market.Speaking of it, there is actually nothing to go shopping, just to go out and let the wind go, but it is very lively now, because scholars from all over the country are coming to prepare for the exam, the inns in the city are full, and many people gather together during the day and night, chatting Poems and papers refer to the sky and the earth, whether it is lively when you come and I go, there are also people from other places who admire the scenery of Yangzhou, go shopping or enjoy the scenery, and so on.

The weather is good today. In Yangzhou in July, there are smoky willow silk and colorful flowers everywhere, gurgling river water, fishing songs sung by boatmen in low voices, and Wu Nong's soft words chanted by people in the market. Romantic, lingering and gentle, weaving a wonderful picture of life in this Jiangnan water town.

Baoyu and Daiyu walked slowly side by side, listening to people's conversations in their ears, smelling the moist fragrance of flowers in the air, even if they didn't say anything, it was very beautiful.He felt that the nerves of his whole body were relaxed, the pores all over his body were dilated, and every cell was breathing to his heart's content.Looking at the soothing and joyful expression on his face, Daiyu finally let go of her hanging heart.

Although she has great confidence in him, he has been working hard for so long. Others may only see him in a relaxed manner, but she knows that he has never let up. As the exam date approaches, she is getting more and more The more she worried that he was pushing herself too hard, but seeing that he was in the mood to joke with her today and was still so relaxed, she was relieved.

It turned out that he would adjust himself.

Putting down the burden in her heart, Daiyu was also in the mood to go shopping. From time to time, she went to the stalls selling small accessories, including masks, candied haws, and even fire-breathing performances. This attracted Daiyu. She took Baoyu to go there, turned her head and said to him, "Hurry up, let's go and have a look too, those people are amazing!"

Baoyu was also happy to see her so happy, knowing that this period of time had suffocated her, she was not the weak woman who could only stay in the boudoir to embroider and write, she was the innocent and lively girl who grew up under his personal protection .It was rare to see her so happy, so he would naturally follow her.

"Okay, okay, let's go there, but you should turn your head and look at the road quickly, and be careful not to bump into others." He smiled dotingly, grabbed her little hand that was holding his sleeve, and rubbed her head.Daiyu slapped his claws away in dissatisfaction: "Don't rub it! It messed up my hair, and Qingwen managed to fix it for me!... Oops!"

Baoyu was straightening her slightly messy forehead hair with a smile, when Daiyu suddenly heard a cry. Looking up, it turned out that Daiyu had bumped into someone without paying attention to her way forward.

Then a warm voice sounded: "Young master, did you not hurt yourself?"

The author has something to say: I went to take the fourth level exam today, no matter what the result is, I have finally unloaded a burden, and the elective course is over tomorrow night, and I feel that there is plenty of time...