By Jia Xiuzhen

Drink a lot and talk a lot.Mother Jia took pity on the two children in the troupe, a clown and a dan role, and called them to speak to them for rewards.Sister Feng made fun of it, saying that one of them looked like the same person, and everyone knew it when they heard it, so they all laughed and said nothing.Ji Xiangyun said, "Like Sister Lin." Baoyu winked at him.Daiyu is thinking, but no one else can know, and she is careful, so she sees all this in her eyes.Baoyu was afraid that the two would lose peace and wanted to mediate in the middle, but he became more and more discouraged when he thought that he would end up as a human being inside and outside.Thinking that there are only these two people in front of him, and even if he can't adjust, it will be even more serious in the future, which means that he has worked hard to follow the flow.

Li Wan was also at the table, and when Sister Feng was speaking, she looked at Daiyu intently, but she saw that Daiyu's face was calm and she didn't care.Later, he went back angrily.Thinking of Lin Ruhai's entrustment before leaving, he had to say a few words of comfort later.I never thought that when I got to Daiyu's place, I saw Daiyu and Xiangyun holding a piece of paper and looking at each other, looking at each other and smiling lightly, so there was no grudge.So relieved, she stepped forward and said with a smile, "After listening to the song for a day, what words do you still read?" Both of them got up to salute, and Daiyu asked Mo Geer to serve tea again.After sitting for a while, Mother Jia sent someone to ask Xiangyun, and Xiangyun took Cuimo with her.

Li Wan said to Daiyu: "Before I was afraid that you would be annoyed, so I came here to persuade you a few words. I don't know that you have a big heart, why do you only listen to your actions and petty words on weekdays? But They should come and take a look." Daiyu laughed and said, "I have people I should be annoyed with, but I won't blame anyone." Li Wan thought about it, and smiled, "Weird Dao just saw you two laughing. He must be babbling, he must have deceived Baoyu to write this sentence. The so-called "affliction is Bodhi", it can be seen that he is lucky. Let's go." Daiyu was overjoyed when she heard that.

Li Wan asked again: "Why don't you annoy Sister Feng or Yun'er, but use Baoyu, a solid child, as a raft?"

After listening to it, Daiyu thought about it, and then said seriously: "There are too many ordinary people and things that are superficial? I talk to people, but I only talk about my heart. Sister Feng is used to joking and joking, but she is just doing it for the ancestors. Besides, that little play did resemble me a little bit after she acted on it. This is not a lie, so why are people still not allowed to tell it? Even if no one said it, that little show still resembled me. This is something that cannot be changed. This is true. Although the others didn’t say it, they all saw it. Yun’er saw it and said it. Whether the two said it or not, they had the same heart, and they both saw the “true existence” 'That's all. If you want to talk about it like this, wouldn't it be me and the Xiaoxi two who should be blamed the most? Who made the two look alike?!" Li Wan nodded upon hearing this.

Daiyu then said again: "That Baoyu is another matter. On the one hand, he is the same as Yun'er, and he can see that the little play has two points like me. In this regard, he is the same as everyone else, and Yun'er himself It's the same. But he prides himself on "not telling it to the mouth". Isn't this deceitful? That's all, he said to Yun'er again, because he was afraid that I would annoy Yun'er, so he gave Yun'er a wink, and let Yun'er She shut up. If he thinks this way, doesn't he have the heart to deceive me again? "

Li Wan shook his head: "How do you say that!"

Daiyu said: "It's a fact that the little play is like me. Baoyu knows it well. But he is afraid that I will be annoyed if he tells it, so it's better to pretend that he doesn't know and get away with it. In this way, isn't it reserved?" Is it possible that I am the only one who can't see this thing that everyone can see? Is it because I am a fool? Or is it that as long as everyone pretends to be deaf and dumb, I will be satisfied and happy? Who do you think I am?! Therefore, Yun'er can be forgiven, but Baoyu cannot be forgiven lightly." After hearing this, Li Wan smiled bitterly and said, "It's strange that people say you are difficult, and it is true. In this way, which ordinary person I can stand you." Daiyu just smiled and said, "Sister-in-law, you just talk, do I make sense?"

Li Wan had no choice but to nod: "Ask with your heart. If it were me, the first one to complain would be Feng girl. It's nothing to do, but she compared me with the opera singer for fun. It's time to fight! The other one is Yun'er. He didn't stop me from saying that he hurt my face in a fit of anger, so he deserved to be beaten. Baoyu, on the other hand, only wanted to protect my face and was afraid that I would be offended, but she was a good person."

Daiyu said: "Bao Yu must have thought the same way, so he felt wronged. But he didn't think about it. He winked at Yun'er before the banquet, but he used Yun'er to make love to me. Seeing Yun'er annoyed later, he said yes I was afraid that I would annoy Yun'er, or that she would offend me, so I came to stop him, but he used me to make love to Yun'er. After all this, Yun'er and I are not good people anyway, he is the only one! If you recognize his love, you will really be contemptuous and self-deprecating!"

Li Wan was so dizzy that he could only nod his head: "It turns out that this is what people mean by 'crushing people under the tongue'. You have such a sharp mouth. When you say it like this, I feel that Baoyu's intentions are hateful. It can be seen in this world. Here, the truth is the most irrefutable, and it really is 'I can't say it, I can't say it, I'm wrong if I say it'."

Daiyu laughed and said, "Sister-in-law, you are talking about Zen!"

Li Wan glanced at her cautiously, clasped his hands together and said, "Amitabha, I know what Baoyu is thinking. When I run into someone like you, I can only find a way to survive beside the Buddha." Everyone laughed.

When Baochai returned to the table the next day, Daiyu, Xiangyun, Baochai, and Baoyu were talking and laughing as before, but they didn't see any discord.On the contrary, Sister Feng whispered to Li Wan: "Fortunately, if Baoyu and sister Lin and sister Yun are really awkward, and make trouble in front of my ancestors, I will have to go around." Li Wan laughed at her: "You know that you are afraid? It made you laugh so much, it's not a slap in the face!" Sister Feng laughed and said, "Cut, you're stupid, are you envious and jealous right now?"

One day, Jia Lan came back from the academy. He had just entered the room and changed his clothes. He didn't have to say a few words, and said outside: "The empress in the palace gave me lantern riddles for everyone to guess." Jia Lan looked up at Li Wan. , Li Wan smiled at her, and said to Suyun, "Go and ask." After a while, Suyun came back and replied, "The empress in the palace gave me a lantern riddle, and asked everyone to guess it and write it down and seal it into the palace. Someone write a lantern riddle and send it in." Jia Lan said: "It's nothing to do with us anyway. Mother, let's discuss the evening meal. It's still so cold these days, I want to eat charcoal hot pot. Let's Don't want the pottery, but the big copper pot with charcoal in the middle. Put a big table in the middle, it will be bright." Li Wan laughed at him: "Can you eat less? Just think about it." Jia Lan She curled her lips: "Although those are good, I have to eat them alone. What's the fun? I just want to eat a hot pot, so it's lively." Just as he was talking, Jia Mu sent someone outside to ask Jia Lan to go and guess the lantern riddles go.Li Wan took Jia Lan with him.

When I went there, I saw that even Jia Huan had arrived, but Jia Cong was too young to read.For a while, I wrote the answers to the riddles and made lantern riddles, sealed them together, and handed them over to the eunuch to send to the palace.

When walking back after we dispersed, Jia Lan purposely dawdled until some of Xichun's colleagues walked by, and after turning the corner, he quietly said to Xichun, "Fourth aunt, do you want hot pot?" Xichun rolled her eyes: "Eat, why don't you eat it?" Don't eat!" After speaking, the two joined hands and went to call Yingchun again.When Li Wan went to Mrs. Wang's and returned to the courtyard, several villains were already sitting there.Li Wan laughed and said, "Why do you come here for a stroll at this time?" Yingchun glanced at Jia Lan, and Li Wan immediately came to his senses, and couldn't help laughing, "Where am I going to rely on you?! As for Baba running away." Abduct your aunts?" Jia Lan just laughed.Li Wan then called Nanny Chang and Bi Yue in, and gave orders all the way down.Then he asked Suyun to fetch the scattered silver and send it to the cook.

Jia Lan rolled his eyes and said to Li Wan, "Mother, I brought some food from outside, which is suitable for eating hot pot." Then he pointed at Li Wan's room, "Just now I put it in that room, and Mother also asked people to eat hot pot." Clean it up." Suspicious, Li Wan went to his room, where is there anything!After thinking about it, "Okay, everyone will lie and coerce food from me!" But after Jia Lan got the Dragon Clothes Realm, he thought about Li Wan's actions and knew that Li Wanding also had such things.Thinking of what Li Wan said about his ancestors cultivating immortals, Xin Dao had this benefit, and I don't know if my grandmother had one back then.After a while, seeing Li Wan come out with a thin bamboo basket, he stuck out his tongue and smiled, and seeing Li Wan glaring at him coldly, he laughed even more happily.

"Lan'er, why don't you ask Aunt Lin?" Jia Lan was happy, and when Xichun asked him, he replied, "We're not drinking tea and eating fruit, what are we asking Aunt Lin to do? Naturally, we have to eat meat to cook." It's delicious!" Turning to Xichun, he mumbled to Xichun about how to use a big copper pot with iron coarse charcoal, slices of rolled mutton and tender chicken.

Yingchun turned to Li Wan and said, "Sister-in-law, Lan'er seems to be different from before." Li Wan was handing the basket of things to Nanny Chang, and told him how to clean up. After hearing what Yingchun said, he turned around and said with a smile: " After staying on the mountain for a long time, he has a cottage air, not like the brother in the mansion, but like a thieves in the green forest." Xichun said: "Sister-in-law, the one in the green forest is called a good man." Li Wan nodded: " Well, with the protection of an elder like you, he will grow longer." Yingchun also laughed when he said that.

In the evening, the imperial concubine Yuan awarded the reward again, but Yingchun and Jia Huan did not guess the mystery. Jia Lan also made a fuss about giving Yingchun the reward she got, which made everyone laugh.

Taking advantage of the excitement, the next day Jia Mu asked people to make a screen quickly, and asked everyone to make lantern riddles and hang them on it, and then took out the playthings as a prize.In this way, we gathered again for a small lantern feast.Jia Lan wanted to run away, but he didn't know that Jia Zheng sent someone to call him, so he had to go.Jia's mother, Jia Zheng, and Baoyu used to sit at the same table. Now Jia Zheng brings Jia Lan to sit here, eat some fruits with him, and ask him about the academy.Mother Jia had never seen Jia Lan very often, she only thought that he was still young, and this time she saw that he was speaking clearly and logically, so she felt a little bit of pity for him.I just feel sorry for Baoyu, who is so restless because of Jia Zheng's three or two words.It was not until Jia Zheng went first that the lock was unlocked.

Li Wan and Sister Feng also have a seat in it, so they are not allowed to sit.Now that they have finished eating before, clean their hands and serve tea, and re-serve cakes, the two of them will have time to take a few mouthfuls later.Li Wan soaked a handful of rice in soup and put down his chopsticks after eating.Sister Feng laughed and said, "You're almost catching up with Sister Lin, what can you do?" Li Wan ignored her, and found another way to ask: "I saw Aunt Zhou taking a girl in the daytime, but it was strange to see her." Sister Feng said: "It's strange, I have been here for a long time. Didn't we lend a house to the government to take in the disaster victims earlier? Later, when the spring warmed up, the house was taken back. Some of them said that there was no one at home. I have nowhere to go, begging to sell myself. It stands to reason that our house does not buy such people, but the old ladies are kind and pity them, so they stay. Some of the older ones are sent to the village, only three or two girls It looked tidy and stayed inside. Aunt Zhou just happened to walk away with a little girl, she didn't think about it, so she took the lead from there. It's been a while now, but he seldom comes out, you I just feel strange." Li Wan nodded after hearing this, thinking about the girl she met just now, although she was named a little girl, she was not young, she looked fifteen or sixteen years old, and she was born with Not bad at all.Said: "I think it was Aunt Zhao who found Huan'er." Sister Feng sneered: "She doesn't want such a girl with no roots." Go ahead and serve.

But when Jia Zheng came back from the lantern feast, he was always thinking about the lantern riddles that a few people had just made.The firecrackers made by the concubine Yuan, the abacus made by Yingchun, the kite made by Tanchun, the sea lantern made by Xichun and Baochai’s incense, all of them have ominous meanings. Why do you make such sad words when the New Year is so prosperous?Thinking and turning, I can't feel at ease.When I got outside, it was the time when the new wind was blowing, and it was even more desolate.After sitting for a while, he walked to the yard of his aunt at the back.

At the family banquet, Aunt Zhou and Aunt Zhao did not serve with Mrs. Wang, not because of Mrs. Wang, but because Mother Jia didn't like these people around.Here, Aunt Zhou heard that the master has come back, thinking that if the master can rest for a while, they can settle down separately.But he never expected Jia Zheng to come to his room.

He hurriedly greeted him, fetched water and held a handkerchief with his own hands, and served him comprehensively.Seeing Jia Zheng's languid expression, he didn't say much. He first took out two pieces of Qingxin incense from his purse and burned it, then asked the maids to fetch their tea sets, and ordered everyone to leave, and then lit the stove to boil water. , Ready to make tea.Jia Zheng smelled the fragrance from the tip of his nose, heard the sound of water loosening in his ears, and his heart gradually became peaceful, so he sighed and said, "Sure enough, I didn't miss you." Aunt Zhou handed over a mug of tea and said softly, "Can you What's the matter, let's drink tea." Jia Zheng felt relieved when he heard the words, and said with a smile, "That's exactly what I said, but I am a mediocre person." The two sat down to drink tea and gossip, and Jia Zheng rested that night. At Aunt Zhou's place.

But Jiamu's quarrel didn't end until the four drums were missed. Jiamu ordered everyone to skip the morning inspection tomorrow, and even breakfast didn't need to be served.Unexpectedly, the next morning, Dao Baoyu felt uncomfortable and panicked for a while.After Dr. Wang came to see him, he said that his temperament was weak, and he was playing around again recently, so he needed to add some tonic soup.Is this even worse in the mansion?But Baoyu is weird. He doesn't eat anything that smells strange. He even feels sick when he smells it. How can he use it to make soup.Fortunately, Wang Ziteng got a letter from there, and asked someone to bring an ancient prescription, and Mrs. Wang hurriedly asked someone to take it and mix it up.That thing is precious, and he was afraid that if he gave it too much, he would waste it carelessly, so he just asked Xiren to come and fetch ten pills and let him eat it.Fortunately, he was able to take the medicine.Only Sister Feng took the list from Jiachang and Jialing and smiled wryly: "Sure enough, she is a beautiful woman, and she took hundreds of taels of medicine for a single post. Fortunately, there is only one phoenix egg in the whole house." Ping'er laughed when she heard that. : "Grandma is afraid of something. Anything that the second master Bao wants is not available in the officials, and there are old ladies and wives. I'm not afraid of making sure there is enough for him to eat." Sister Feng laughed when she heard this: "Just say It's a phoenix egg!"

Aunt Xue also asked Xue Pan to take some herbs from her pharmacy and send them to Mrs. Wang.When Tongxi came back from delivering the medicine, he saw Baochai was counting the annual gifts with Aunt Xue, and he went forward to salute and reported back, "Madam, there are officials' wives talking at Aunt Madam's place, so I will give the things to Jin Chuan'er for collection." .” Aunt Xue nodded and let her go down.Baochai asked, "What did Mom send?" Aunt Xue said, "Let your brother bring back some medicinal materials. Isn't Baoyu not doing well these days? Just take some." Can this be missing? The day before yesterday, I heard Xiren say that my wife has prepared medicine." Aunt Xue said: "There is no shortage, I live in someone's house, and if I know it, there must be a movement to be polite."

After counting and logging in, Aunt Xue asked someone to collect the gift book, and then sat on the other side of the kang with Baochai to chat.

"It's all over at last. This year's festival, I'm so busy visiting my mother-in-law. I think your aunt will have a few more gray hairs." Aunt Xue took the tea brought by Tonggui, took a sip and sighed .

Baochai said: "If you want to say that you are still sister Feng, you can really stand. In those few days, others had to rest for a while, but it was difficult for her. Even after the mother-in-law finished visiting her relatives, she was exhausted everywhere, and she also returned. You have to look back and forth. It's not easy."

Aunt Xue nodded, and after thinking about it, she said, "It's time for Lian'er to take Feng girl. If you still act like Zhu'er's wife, your aunt will have no choice. Only Lian'er and Feng girl belong to that end." People don't care about the reason of staying here for the rest of their lives. In the future, it will depend on Baoyu's daughter-in-law. If she marries an inexperienced second grandmother of Baoyu, then just wait for chaos." Baochai's words were hard to answer. , So he brought tea to drink.

Aunt Xue said again: "Looking at the appearance of the empress that day, I really hurt Baoyu to the bone. In the future, I may be an uncle of the country. Look at the two of the Empress Dowager's natal family now, tsk tsk, they are really the power of the emperor's relatives. .”

Baochai knew the depth, and hurriedly said: "Mom, this can't be confused. There is also the queen in the palace. How can we talk about uncle Guo here?" Aunt Xue and her party nodded: "I know, I know, I'm not at home. That's what I meant." The two talked about all the things that happened when Concubine Yuan was visiting relatives, and after a while of admiration, Aunt Xue went forward.

But Baochai remembered the concubine Ling that the concubine Yuan had mentioned that day.When she came back that day, Baochai asked Xue Pan to quietly inquire about this concubine outside.Things in the palace cannot be disclosed, but what is seen outside cannot be hidden from others.Not a few days after Liu Lingrou was promoted to concubine, one brother and one brother from her natal family had a way out, and even Lao Tzu was promoted to a level. Although she is still a fifth-rank son, she is really lacking in a state magistrate.It's no wonder that the concubine Yuan has to mention it, seeing that she is extremely favored.Come to think of it, back then, she was just a waitress waiting to be elected in a palace gown standing behind others, but now she is in heaven and earth.Inadvertently lowering her head and touching the golden lock on her chest, she sighed in her heart: "But I don't know who this jade is..."