By Jia Xiuzhen

Daiyu went back to the Xiaoxiang Pavilion, tidied up a bit, and then asked people to pack some summer gadgets to send around, and then she took Guiliu Mogeer to Daoxiang Village first.

Seeing her coming, Li Wan said with a smile: "I just came back from the old lady's place, why did you come here? Didn't you take a good rest? Thinking about how tired you are from playing at home these days?"

Yingchun was also here, and couldn't help being happy after hearing this.Daiyu didn't think it was disobedient, she smiled and said: "Let my sister-in-law talk. The night before yesterday, she said she would see me off. Everyone had a good night. They were supposed to come here yesterday. No, I was really tired, so I stayed at home for a while." Day." Looking around again, he asked, "Why don't you see Fourth Sister?"

Li Wan shook his head: "She didn't bother to come here when Lan'er wasn't here. She thought our conversation was boring and we acted less like a famous official."

They talked and sat down, and they talked about Daiyu's stay at home. Li Wan just let it go, and Yingchun couldn't help but yearn for it.Li Wan then teased her and said, "I heard that girl Yun is talking about her before, so you won't be able to stay for too long if you think about it. When you get married, you will be the master of your own family, and you can come here as you want."

Yingchun blushed, spit on Li Wan and stopped talking.Only GUI Liu looked up at her, then lowered her head and said nothing, but Li Wan watched her movements of picking up the sleeves of her clothes with her fingers, and remembered them in her heart.

Just as he was talking, he heard laughter outside, thinking someone else was coming, but it was Jia Lan who came in with Xichun.Primrose and Green both hurried up to serve her, and Li Wan also stood up and said, "Why are you back today? Seeing that I'm with your aunt, this family didn't have time to go back, so I went to find your aunt first."

Jia Lan smiled and went inside, changed her clothes and came out, then said: "Take two things for my aunts, and I might as well send them there first, so I don't have to climb back to the mountain."

Seeing that Jia Lan hadn't seen her these days, Daiyu seemed to open her eyes a little, so she smiled and said, "Lan'er is really rare, she is smart, sensible and filial, and she has the grace of both civil and martial arts..."

Before she finished speaking, Xichun said with a proud face: "That is, I don't want to see whose nephew it is!"

Jia Lan saw that the aunts who were always close to him were there, and he knew that his aunt's talent and learning might not be inferior to those famous talents outside, so he started the conversation and said: "Aunts, stop praising me, my husband is a teacher. Uncle is disgusted with me. I was so annoyed that I sneaked back."

Everyone hurriedly asked why, and Jia Lan said, "It's not about the 'resolute' thing. Mr. said, people who have no ambitions have no goals, and there must be a direction to compete with, so that we can talk about planning from now on."

Daiyu Yingchun and the others nodded and said, "That makes sense."

Jia Lan smiled wryly: "What's the use of being reasonable? I really can't figure out what I want to do. If you want me to talk about my family and the world, I can also say it, but it's a lie. Because I really don't know what family is. affairs of the country."

Daiyu also nodded and said: "This is good. If you want to be determined, you must naturally ask about your heart. How old are you and how many things have you seen, that's all there is to say."

Jia Lan said again: "These days, I've been hanging out with my seniors, making indirect remarks and probing each other with words, only to realize that since I was born in the mansion, I have lost most of my opportunities to make up my mind."

Everyone was puzzled, so he went on to say: "I see that some people work hard with one heart and one mind. Although it's hard to say later, it was all due to their own circumstances at first. Either they want to live a prosperous life, or they want to be admired by others, and then some For the family to enjoy happiness, for the glory of the lintel, and so on. The aunts look at me again, are they all gone? I don’t believe that I can surpass the old man and the others with the glory of the lintel. Besides, we still have a lady now Well, there's nothing wrong with me.

I looked at those children outside again, hey!I haven't seen a few ambitious ones either.If you look closely, there are always [-]% to [-]% because you want everything you want, and you don't have the bloody fighting spirit.Also, because I am used to living a good life, I can't bear hardships, and naturally I can't work hard.The other two were also willing to give it a try, but in a big family, every move involved a lot, if they put on an effort but failed to achieve any results, it would become a joke in the circle.In this way, I stopped thinking.

I am different from them.One thing I am not afraid of those so-called hardships, we have not experienced anything.Secondly, I am not afraid of what is not a joke, so I have nothing to fear.After thinking about it, I really don't want to do anything. I can't arouse interest in this ordinary thing.Take the career exam and seek an official job?What do you do it for? !Get into the pile of books to learn?What's the use of learning!It's not very interesting. "

Yingchun listened to it from the beginning, and then said: "Didn't you help your academy get some crops earlier? That is a good thing that benefits the country and the people. Since you can do such a thing, it is your ambition and not your ambition." No way."

Jia Lan shook his head: "That's just my uncle's enthusiasm, so I'm busy with it. It's just a matter, but it's difficult to make a career out of it. I thought about it, if I want to make a resolution for something, I have to like it myself. Benefiting the country and benefiting the people, I don’t have any liking for such a thing. Auntie thinks things are simple, how can we produce some high-yield crops so that people can get them? For example, originally It can only feed ten people. These ten people either eat rice or steamed cakes. Now they can feed twenty people, but all of them can only eat brown rice, black flour, potato and sweet potato. Is it really a good thing? I don’t think so. Oh, I've been thinking about these things all day long, and found that many things can't stand to be investigated, and once I pursue them, they change the flavor!"

Everyone was dumbfounded, and GUI Liu suddenly said: "Brother, it's clear that you have made up your mind, why do you say you haven't?"

Jia Lan couldn't figure it out: "Where did I make up my mind? I still can't figure out what to do."

Guiliu said: "Brother, if you ask your heart directly in everything, isn't it just 'aspiration for the Tao'? How can you say you have no ambition when you have the Tao heart?"

Jia Lan was overjoyed: "Is this possible?"

Daiyu said with a smile: "'Aspire to the Tao, rely on virtue, rely on others, and practice art', there is a classic, I'm afraid the solution is different from your original intention now."

Guiliu said: "What's behind is still a secular matter. Since my brother has no intention of doing this, I just want to 'aspire to the Tao'. I ask my heart in the ordinary life, until I get the Tao. Isn't this a big ambition? There is nothing like it. It's a bigger ambition."

Yingchun looked at Li Wan: "What does sister-in-law say?"

Li Wan shook his head and said: "Zhuangzi has a saying that 'one and words are two, two and one are three', let me say something! Your husband wants you to be determined, which is also a common law in this world, and has its own reasons. .Just want me to say, what is this aspiration? You really set your aspirations today and don’t change them tomorrow? Or if you want to change your aspirations someday in the future, what can really stop you from doing it?……So to speak , Whether or not this determination is made is just a momentary play, and it cannot be guaranteed in the long run, not to mention that it is a muddled account of what the ambition should be. That being the case, it doesn't matter what you say, so it is what you say."

Daiyu nodded: "I know how Lan'er can grow into her current temperament, but it's because of such a mother. Sister-in-law, if you made up your mind early in the morning to ask Lan'er to seek fame and fame in the family, with Lan'er's qualifications, I'm afraid I can give it a try now, maybe I can imitate Gan Luo's 12-year-old prime minister."

Li Wan shook his head again: "People in the world often say that Gan Luo worshiped the prime minister at the age of 12, but they don't say that he died at the age of [-]. This is the case with everyone. It seems that good things are his own, and it is unfair to touch the upper body with bad things. If you say My wish for Lan'er was that when he was young, I really worked hard because he was weak. I only hoped that he would turn healthy and grow old safely. Now when you look at him, you can still think of the day when he had a fever. Feeling dizzy and unconscious? My wish is gone, but nothing else.

But now that he is guiding and training his body, and he has met a master, I am worried that he will become domineering from now on, and he will become an untouchable devil king.It seems to be okay now, after all, it is the gentlemen who teach well, and it seems to be decent.As for fame and wealth, there is a saying that "a family is rich and a thousand families complain, and half a lifetime of fame is a hundred years." There are only so many things in the world. If you want to be rich and prominent, you will eat more and occupy more, so what is there to envy?

Ordinary life is the same as doing business, always looking forward to spending less and earning more, which is called profit.If you only talk about human beings, what good is there for me in this world?It is rough that makes the women busy all day, cleaning, but we enjoy the blessing.It means wealth.Now that I see this, where do I have the heart to drive him to seek such superiority?Accounts are calculated by people, and accounts are calculated by heaven and earth. We only see that the prosperity and dignity in front of us are earned. Who knows what it will be like in the bottom line?I just couldn't understand these things, so I didn't know where to push him.Simply by him worth mentioning. "

What Yingchun said made everyone concentrate on thinking carefully, and Daiyu also felt deeply: "I told Yun'er that day, she envied the many capable people around me, but she didn't know how ashamed I was. Seeing They have their own strengths and can specialize in one. What about me? Could it be that I was born to enjoy those things? I never thought about it in the past, but now that I think about it, the little bit of refinement in the art of seeking the Tao may be the ultimate taste Right. I just enjoy it in a daze, how is it different from the fine racks for hanging jewelry and clothes hangers for drying clothes?"

After hearing this, Yingchun looked at Daiyu differently, and asked in a low voice, "Sister Lin doesn't have anything to devote herself to?"

Daiyu thought for a while: "I'm good at poetry, so that's nothing. If you want to say that Yu Yi seeks the Tao, there is really no one." Then she asked, "I see, but the second sister has them?"

Yingchun nodded, and Xichun interjected: "Second sister loves formations, I like talismans, but I don't talk about ordinary things, so I can save myself from looking at people's suspicious faces!"

Li Wan laughed when he heard this, but Dai Yu sighed: "In this way, Lan'er and I really need 'resolute'."

Seeing that they all said that, Jia Lan also went all out and said: "If you want to say that, then I have it too. It's just that I told the gentlemen, but the gentlemen can't do it!"

Several people asked, and he said: "I just thought that if I practice my skills well, I will be able to subdue demons and subdue demons, eliminate violence and bring peace to the people!"

Yingchun and Daiyu looked at each other speechlessly, Li Wan sighed, but Xichun clapped her hands and said, "This is good! This is good!"

Jia Lan thought to herself, "Sure enough, Fourth Aunt knows about me!" The two went to the side and murmured in detail, only to hear Xichun pat her chest and promise: "Lan'er, don't be afraid, when the time comes, Auntie will draw two pictures for you." Magical talisman, there is nowhere to escape those gods who are punishing the gods!"

Gossiping for a long time, after several people dispersed from Daoxiang Village, Daiyu returned to Xiaoxiang Pavilion.Sitting and wiping her face, Zijuan asked from the side: "Young lady has finally come back, why don't you go to see Master Bao? He has been suffering from his injuries for a while." Daiyu shook her head indiscriminately: "Which one is talking about?" Rehabilitation is said to be recuperated, so let's make trouble with him once, and it shouldn't be. Besides, it's late today, why don't we go there together tomorrow." Zijuan had no answer.

But Mo Ge'er said with a smile: "Miss, others don't know what she said. Xiren must be happy to hear it. Maybe he knows that the girl is the real magistrate in his heart, so considerate." After finishing speaking, he cooed happily.

Zijuan glanced at Daiyu in the mirror and said with a smile: "Speaking of attacking people, we should go to congratulate her. The day before yesterday, my wife decided to remove her name from the old lady and choose another one for her." She got married. From the wife’s statute, she gave her a dime and two taels of silver every month, and said that in the future, whenever Aunt Zhou and Aunt Zhao have something, there will be attackers. The girl said, shouldn’t it be congratulations?”

Daiyu pursed her lips and smiled: "It will be sooner or later."

Sister Xin also said: "It's just following the example of my aunt, and I don't even have a proper name. You guys are making trouble in private. How can there be a reason for a girl to congratulate? Which girl who has never left the house will go to congratulate My cousin has added a roommate? It doesn't sound good to say it." Zijuan hurriedly lowered her head and answered.

Daiyu didn't take it seriously: "Mama was talking about the rules in this garden, but she got it wrong. What's more, the attacker came out of the old lady's house, so we have to call her sister. But in the future, could it be Do you want to change your name to sister-in-law?" He said happily.

Nanny Xin spat: "Miss, don't make such a joke! Be careful to let the second sister-in-law of the girl's real self listen to you in the future, it's hard to guarantee that she will hold grudges and embarrass you, sister-in-law!"

Daiyu giggled happily, and said, "I don't know how sooner or later it will happen. If it really happens, it must be one of you who leaked the news!"

Zicuckoo glanced at Daiyu from time to time, and when she mentioned attacking people early, how uncomfortable it would be to be Daiyu, but she only joked a few words, that's all.Why are you talking about the second sister-in-law now? How is this Daiyu's usual tone? !Surprised and uncertain in my heart, I don't know what Daiyu is thinking now.

Until the end of the day, Daiyu didn't go to Yihong Courtyard.In the evening, Mother Xin asked, and Daiyu thought for a while and said, "Didn't Mother tell me, 'There are twelve hours in a day, more when you are happy and less when you are unhappy'? I don't know why, when I see Baoyu, I always get into a quarrel, even if I don't argue, I have a lot of leisure. Now think about it, why bother? Simply see him less, and everyone will be happier."

Sister Xin said with a warm smile: "Miss, I don't know, but what you do is a way for us to nourish our body and mind. It's called 'seeking good luck and avoiding evil'. Miss Xin doesn't know that there are different causes and conditions between people. People, when you are close to her, you feel peaceful and comfortable in your heart, and you can even live a normal life and do things more smoothly; some people, if you are close to her, it is inappropriate for some reason, and you will encounter troubles even in your actions. It's just ordinary people Most of them are caught in their own likes and dislikes, so it’s hard to detect it. If you can detect it, isn’t it the right thing to seek good luck and avoid evil?”

Daiyu nodded again and again: "What Mammy said is very true. I feel that since Mo Ge'er and Mammy came, I will be 'everything will be fine'."

Gui Liu took the time to pinch Daiyu's sleeves: "Girl, girl, what about me? What about me?"

Daiyu scratched her nose: "Since you came, it's called 'restless chickens and dogs' and 'flying chickens and dogs jumping'!" Mo Ge'er even said that the girl made a reasonable evaluation.

On the second day, they had dinner at Jiamu's place before making an appointment to see Baoyu together.Baoyu knew that Daiyu was back yesterday, but he didn't see anyone. He was thinking about how to offend Sister Lin. Today, when he saw her, he spoke and laughed as usual without distinction or dissonance, and he was surprised.If you want to ask, but Baochai, Xiangyun and others are all there, so it's hard to speak.

Sitting and talking for a while, and seeing that she was about to leave, Baoyu called out, "Sister Lin!" Daiyu was not yet doing anything, but she saw GUI Liu turned her head and stared at him with a half-smile on her face.Seeing Baoyu's heart agitated, he hurriedly changed his words: "My sister promised to make me a sachet last year..."

Daiyu turned around and shook her head and said, "Second brother, you can't blame others. You begged me, but I didn't agree. Could it be that second brother has always acted like this? That's hard for me. Done."

Baoyu had thousands of pleadings in his mouth, and when he saw Xiangyun, he remembered that Xiren had begged her to make something for him two days ago.I had no choice but to say stubbornly: "Then let's talk about it when my sister is free."

Tanchun then said: "Second brother, you are really serious. What is the important thing about the sachet?! Even if you leave Qingwen here, I don't believe that there is no one else who knows how to sew. Begging to come to sister Lin , Sister Lin is going to be in charge of the house now, she doesn't know many things in a day, how can she have the energy to care about you."

Daiyu smiled and said, "Third Sister is still considerate."

After Baoyu heard this, he couldn't talk anymore, so he could only watch the people go away again.

Xiren saw Baoyu listless, but he didn't know how to explain it, and now her identity is different from the past, let alone.Just at this time, Jia Lan came to visit his second uncle and welcomed him in.

Baoyu wasn't in the mood to deal with him at all, but she didn't know that Jia Lan had already regarded him as another example of "inquiring about ambitions", so she led the conversation to him with a few words.He said something about how difficult it was to do, which reached Baoyu's heart.He said again and again: "Lan'er, you are absolutely right! It's the pitiful place with nothing to do. Outsiders can't understand, so why don't you think we are?"

Jia Lan remembered that Baoyu was the first "busy with nothing" in the mansion, and thought that he really asked the wrong person.But Baoyu opened the chatter box: "We don't have to worry about food and clothing, and live a good life. Isn't it ridiculous to do what we want to do? Isn't time and time the most precious thing in this life? It's time to enjoy yourself. Live up to the fleeting years! If you are like those ordinary people, you are full of the glory of the future, but you give up the present. Is the future as he imagined? Most of them don’t exist, but the world only regards such an idiot as a model! Don’t mention that, talk about benevolence, righteousness and morality, but actually took the sage’s book as a stepping stone, and concentrated on those few words to plot against the rich and powerful. I said they are lu beetles. There are people there. It's dirty there, I feel sick and sad just thinking about it, how can I be with them?!"

Jia Lan watched Baoyu talk endlessly, but it was not what she wanted to ask, so she thought of a way and said, "Second Uncle Bao, have you ever said this to Aunt Lin in front of Aunt Lin?"

Baoyu said: "Sister Lin knows me best. She never talks about economics, but she should have heard this too."

Jia Lan shook her head and said, "Second Uncle Bao is bad. You just make fun of those official careers and economics, but forget that my aunt is a high-ranking official! You speak frankly, but I don't know what Aunt Lin thinks. "

Baoyu was stunned for a moment, and then hurriedly said: "Then, how can it be the same? It is naturally different..." But it was difficult to understand, and he was still thinking about when he said something, and looked at Sister Lin Now treat yourself a lot more distant.Damn it, damn it!

Seeing that he was flustered, Jia Lan smiled inwardly, and took the opportunity to resign.I walked all the way and thought: "Sure enough, it's not easy for me to wait for Gaoliang Wanfu, but I'm just an ordinary person, just because I have more money and servants to manipulate, my life has magnified my likes and dislikes." Times. Because it is profitable here, there are a lot of persuasion and leverage from people with ulterior motives. If you don’t have a clear idea, it’s really easy to be kidnapped.” But I don’t know if it’s the voice of the world’s dandies.