By Jia Xiuzhen

It is said that Xiren is proud of Qingwen's letter from Fengqi Academy, she took it to heart, and made inquiries every now and then.Although there was no word on whether it would be a success or not, that person did not come back - last time the academy sent a maid to take away all her usual salutes.The eldest daughter-in-law of the Lai family was the first to be happy. Nanny Lai was still half unhappy, but that day when Mother Jia said, "Going out to raise her will make her more prosperous, and it will only be better if she comes back", so she changed her mind again. Also happy.It's just that these words spread to Xi Ren's ears in conjunction with the situation in front of her, which made her even more anxious. She was partial and not in front of her, and she couldn't use any means.

Today I heard that Jin Chuan'er came in to serve again. They have always been close since they were young, and heard that she often had contacts with Qingwen when she was outside, so they wanted to talk to her.Baoyu fell asleep in a daze, and she whispered a few words to She Yueqiuwen, and then she left and went to Mrs. Wang's yard.

As soon as I answered Mrs. Wang's two words about Baoyu's food and rest, I reported that the master was back outside, and I avoided it with Jin Chuan'er and Yu Chuan'er, and stood outside on the porch.

Jia Zheng entered the room and saw Caixia waiting in front of Mrs. Wang, so he asked, "How did you hear that the girl you drove away last time came back? Didn't you say you were going to Fengqi Academy?"

Mrs. Wang took the teacup and handed it to Jia Zheng, and said with a smile: "Master, I heard it wrong. Jin Chuan'er was too tired before, and it was also because of my indulgence that her mother asked her to take it back and teach the two. God. After all, I grew up in front of me when I was young. After a few days, I was out of breath. I wanted to call in to talk first. But she was fine, and she started crying on her knees. I felt uncomfortable watching it, so I simply let her I’m still here to serve. I’ll see if it’s good or not. The one that the master said went to the academy was Qingwen from Baoyu’s room. With such a future waiting, there is no reason for us to stop it."

Jia Zheng listened to his beard and groaned. This time, when he beat Baoyu hard, it was naturally his entanglement with the opera singer of Zhongshun's palace that was at the top of his mind, but it was someone who said that he "obscenely humiliated his mother and maid".Now hearing Mrs. Wang's words, seeing that it was a lamp being lit, she couldn't help but feel a little tense on her face, and another annoyance arose in her heart.He said: "I think it's time for Huan'er to teach you well. You have always been soft-hearted, and you can't use your wrists, but you can't deal with his temperament. Listen to me, find two powerful nuns for him, and give him another in two days." Let's set up a yard."

Mrs. Wang said: "It's better to find another courtyard, but the inner courtyard is better than the outer courtyard?"

Jia Zheng said: "Of course they are in the outer courtyard. It is precisely because they are not able to stay inside that they have to go outside to discipline them."

Mrs. Wang had no choice but to agree.Ever since Jia Huan splashed hot oil on Baoyu's face, Mrs. Wang never asked him to come.Sister Feng also said: "Madam, those who have always been black-hearted and have their intestines rotted, come to me and bite people at any time. What's the use of beating or killing at that time? The jade bottles are all broken!" Wang Madam thought that fortunately she didn't hurt her eyes at that time, so what else, she treated Aunt Zhao mother and son more and more coldly from then on.But Sister Feng said that Mrs. Wang is still kind-hearted. If it were in her hands, there would be such a disaster.

Jia Zheng turned around and asked about Qingwen again. Mrs. Wang agreed casually, and then asked, "Why does the master care about this?"

Jia Zheng waved his hands and said, "How would you know! The academy has deep roots and great influence. It's just that we have never had any contact with that one. Alas, if the fourth sister is still here..." After a while, he was depressed again. Picking up the topic, "I didn't expect such a strange thing to happen. A girl went into it. If we can use this to tie the knot in the future, then the sisters in the family will be able to enter the academy for a year or so." , are all great benefits! Now I can’t explain it in detail, you just remember this.”

Mrs. Wang only cared about the empresses in the palace, but she didn't care much about the rest, as long as she could benefit in this way, it would be beneficial to Yuanchun, so she happily agreed.

They were talking in the room, and they could vaguely hear a few words outside. When Qingwen was mentioned, Xiren's face remained motionless, but his hands clenched into fists.Jin Chuan'er glanced at it and smiled.

Jia Zheng came out from Mrs. Wang, drank tea with Aunt Zhou, sat down for a while, and then went out to do business again.Aunt Zhou sent him to the courtyard gate before turning back to her room.As soon as he entered the room, he heard the little girl Rui'er suppressing her throat to teach the later one called Ya'er.Seeing Aunt Zhou came in, she stopped talking, with anger still on her face.

Aunt Zhou asked Ya'er to go out, and left Rui'er with a sullen face.Ya'er glanced up slightly, then stepped back respectfully.Aunt Zhou left Rui'er in the air for half a day before she said: "What are you doing again?!" Rui'er felt aggrieved, her eyes turned red when she heard her question and said: "I didn't see you, this girl will come back when the master comes." Going forward desperately, today I see that she hasn't seen her for a while, and when she comes back, she smells like a scent, who can hide her thoughts?! I'm talking about her! My aunt scolded me .”

Seeing her crying pitifully, Aunt Zhou couldn't help laughing and said: "You are so sad, but you are afraid that she will be born better than you, and that the master will fancy her and not you?"

Rui'er spat loudly when she heard the words: "Bah! We don't have such cheap thoughts!"

Aunt Zhou nodded: "Don't hide it from me. I'll ask you something right today. What do you want to do in the future?"

Rui'er thought for a while: "I just want to follow my aunt, if... if... I can't stay when I'm old, I just hope that I won't be given to someone who doesn't make progress."

Aunt Zhou asked again: "Is there anything else on your mind?"

Rui'er looked at Aunt Zhou: "It would be great if it could be released. It's just... we don't have the luck and face of Sister Qingwen."

Aunt Zhou suddenly smiled and said: "Silly girl! There is no way that day will come!" Rui'er was puzzled, and Aunt Zhou didn't say any more. Girl. It's just that although you don't have that kind of heart, you can't stop others from having that kind of heart, so why did you act like a bad person and ruin her Qingyun Road?"

Rui'er couldn't help being at a loss for words: "But she, she... she is like that! Then, if... in the future, auntie, you... or auntie kept her so she could work in the inner courtyard. If not, I don't know which cold alley to clean , What a heartless person!"

Aunt Zhou shook her head and stopped her and said: "That's wrong. I'm just an aunt, and I also serve the master. Why do you only allow me to do this and not others? I know your heart, but you want to break it." One more thing, you are different from her. She came from a disaster. She came here when there were so many people vying for a bite of food. I really lived a life like that. Seeing what it looks like now, I’m afraid it’s not the same as Tiangong Is it? Naturally, it is better to find a way to live a life like this for a long time. This is the heart's will, and there is nothing wrong with it, and you blame her too."

Rui'er was still waiting to argue, and Aunt Zhou stopped her again and said: "Since you have that thought, believe me, and never make things difficult for her from now on. Not only don't make things difficult for her, but also help her accomplish things. Let's go our own way All ways complement each other, just do what I say, remember?"

Rui'er stayed by Aunt Zhou's side the longest, and she valued her the most. After hearing what she said so solemnly, she agreed, only thinking that maybe Auntie had other plans.

Seeing that she accepted it, Aunt Zhou asked her to call Ya'er.Seeing Rui'er's face full of tears, Ya'er thought she was being scolded by Aunt Zhou, and felt guilty. When she saw Aunt Zhou, she quickly knelt down and apologized.Aunt Zhou shook her hand to get her up, and said softly, "No need. I just ask you, would you like to learn tea art from me?"

Ya'er was surprised and delighted, looking at Aunt Zhou, her expression changed momentarily, but she didn't know how to answer the words.

Aunt Zhou still smiled: "Master likes the art of tea very much. It's just that this is not enough. You have to learn the color of the clothes, the wearing of jewelry and hairpins, and even your words and deeds. But you have to pay attention to it all the time. If you succeed in learning, I am afraid that the whole body will be completely reborn, and the skin will be peeled off from exhaustion, are you willing?"

Ya'er didn't know what she meant, so she knelt down and kowtowed loudly: "I am grateful for my aunt's teaching."

Aunt Zhou helped her up again: "Okay, you just have to make up your mind and don't regret it in the future.... This is a little... You have to taste all kinds of sufferings."

Ya'er frowned and said, "I'm not afraid, Auntie, as long as you don't go hungry and cold, and don't get sold and bought. I'm not afraid of anything else."

Aunt Zhou said in her heart that this is the only way to go?It's just that she only said something from her heart in two or three words, and since she had that meaning, it didn't suit her status to talk too much.Then he nodded in agreement, and immediately picked up the usual tricks of serving people and began to talk in detail one by one.

It is also said that after Jia Zheng left, Mrs. Wang called Xiren in to talk about Baoyu, and after a good questioning, she let her go.Only then did Xiren have time to talk to Jin Chuan'er.

Jin Chuan'er has been outside these days, seeing people's faces change several times, and now she always looks at people and things with a little bit of sarcasm.Xicai said a few words, and she sneered and said, "Why are you so sloppy, are you tired? Didn't you want to ask Qingwen?"

Xiren choked, and said with a smile: "Yes, I have to ask her too. Is it possible that I can ask you first?"

Jin Chuan'er stretched out her fingernails to have a look, and said, "Ask me what can I have? Those who have been kicked out once can get two taels more silver a month?"

Xiren's face didn't change after hearing this, and he said: "That's just the wife's grace. I was just about to ask you, why did the wife get so angry? There are rumors outside, and the other end is still in front of the master. Chewing his tongue caused Baoyu to be beaten so badly that he is still lying down and unable to get out of bed."

Jin Chuan'er sneered inwardly, and said indifferently, "What are you talking about? Don't those rumors say that there is no wave without wind? Baoyu's beating may not have been wronged."

Hearing this, Xiren couldn't help but get angry, and said, "What's the matter with you? You're not angry, so tell us, sisters, let's talk about it. What's the point of talking like this?! "

Jin Chuan'er looked up at her, and said for a long time: "Which sentence did I say wrong? Don't you know what your father is like? I don't understand what you said! Why don't you tell me that you want to get it from me?" Come up with something, I can still tell you what to say!"

Jin Chuaner's teeth were sharper than Qingwen's, and she couldn't resist the attack. She stomped her feet and said, "Forget it! I think you ate uncooked rice for breakfast! Let's talk later when you calm down!" After speaking, she went out Let's go, Jin Chuan'er said with a smile behind him: "If you want to find out what I said, I can tell you clearly. You are thinking and thinking, and you may not be able to see it in the eyes of others. Don't be so stupid. The fight between the dog and Yunying'er was just a joke for us!" Xiren paused, and went away without looking back.

Here Yu Chuan'er came out from behind, pulled Jin Chuan'er aside and said, "Why are you bothering? Now she is in the eyes of the wife, the first one next to Baoyu. Why do you bother to run on her? What do you get?" benefit?"

Jin Chuan'er waved her hand: "What benefits do I want? I don't want any benefits so I dare to live a frank life! So what if she is No. 1 by Baoyu's side? Even if she is Bao's second grandmother, she doesn't have that If you can reach out to me, I will accept her words? Dreaming!"

Yu Chuan'er knew that Jin Chuan'er was annoyed by others talking about being kicked out with her now, but just now Xiren was bitten by her as soon as she said something back, so she would be furious.Thinking in my heart, I sighed: "If you keep doing this, this job will be too difficult. Do you need someone to coax you? Who are you!"

Jin Chuan'er smiled: "In the future, you will naturally know who I am!"

When the attacker went back to Yihong courtyard, Baoyu was already awake, leaning against Bihen and talking.Seeing this, Xiren's expression froze, and he thought to himself that it was really a refusal of wolves before and tigers later.

Seeing the attacker come in, Bihen smiled and said, "It's been hot and stuffy since the early morning, so it might rain in the evening. If it thunders, Second Master won't be able to sleep."

Baoyu then said: "Yes, if it really thunders, you are not allowed to leave today, and you should stay with me in the house. In this way, if a thunder strikes, it will turn into ashes and smoke, and it will not be in vain."

The attacker said angrily, "Okay, I just asked him to say something like this when I was away for a moment! I really can't walk away with one foot, but if I'm not in front of me, there will be an accident."

Baoyu was feeling hot again, so she asked Qiuwen and a little girl to play fans, and said: "Second Master is too hot, why don't you lie down on the cool couch under the window for a while, it's not so tired, it's only hotter."

Baoyu smiled, and let Bihen help him and lay down on the cool couch. Several people were still fanning.Xiren mixed a spoonful of fragrant dew with the weak tea that had been splashed in cold water and fed it to him, and it was considered calm.

In the evening, the day became darker and gloomy, and the mothers-in-law, daughters-in-law and little girls who had to go out for errands were all in a hurry, for fear of being caught in the rain on the way, this garden is no longer the mansion. There are corridors everywhere.

In the Xiaoxiang Pavilion, Zijuan was asking the girls to go down the window, and Daiyu said, "It's all closed and I'm so bored. I put up two doors, and the eaves are so high, I can't get in the rain." Opened the two windows on one side, and closed the rest tightly, and said: "This day is very stuffy, it's best to let it rain quickly, so that we can see through."

Daiyu didn't go to Jiamu's for dinner again. Jiamu ordered all the sisters' portions to be sent to the garden, and added two more bowls of vegetables for Baoyu and Daiyu.Aunt Xin waited on Daiyu before going down to eat.It's all cleaned up, Daiyu is reading a book, it's pitch black outside.

When the wind blows up for a while, it gradually becomes stronger, and after a while it becomes violent.The thousands of green bamboos in the Xiaoxiang Pavilion were scraped to the side, and the rattling sound was even louder.Zijuan frowned and said: "It's really nice here when the sun is shining, it's cool and quiet, and now it's windy and rainy, and it's a hundred times more scary than the other side! It can be seen that there is probably nothing good in this world."

I don't know if it's because of their hearts, but everyone felt that it was getting darker and darker that day. Although the lamps were lit, the flames were floating around, and they couldn't illuminate much circles.Black clouds billowed overhead, a flash of lightning flashed across, and thunder suddenly arrived.Xueyan was so startled that she almost knocked over the teacup in her hand.Nurse Xin hurriedly hugged Daiyu in her arms, and said in a low voice, "The closer the thunder is to the lightning, the louder it will be. If you still don't hear the sound after half a day, wait for the thunder to come." , It’s just like a groaning stomach. Today, they are all stepping on their heels, it’s really scary. Don’t be afraid, girl, it’s just a chance meeting.”

Daiyu smiled and said: "I was terribly afraid of this at first, and would jump up in shock if there was any loud noise, but now it seems to be much better. Probably because of the encouragement from Master Rong, when I was at home earlier, Daddy coaxed me and said that sound was Lei Gong drumming."

Gui Liu smiled and said, "That's because the girl has succeeded in her training and has a strong heart."

There was a strong wind outside, and the window panes rattled. Amidst the wind and thunder, there were occasional huh-la-cha-cha-cha sounds, something was knocked over or broken.Zijuan and the others felt scared when they heard the movement, even Mo Ge'er was a bit uncomfortable, and only Gui Liu was just smiling as if nothing had happened.

The wind came in from nowhere, blowing the lamps and shadows, making them more and more uneasy.Daiyu frowned and said, "Why don't the lights turn on today?" Before she could finish speaking, GUI Liu found something, and it was too late for Daiyu to stop it.I saw her throwing her hand, and with some ingenuity, she hung a big umbrella mushroom-like thing on the roof beam of the house.The umbrella-like thing on the top of the thing is silver and shiny, and it seems to be plated with gold and silver; the mushroom-shaped thing underneath is round, also about the size of a fist, so bright that people can't shake it. open your eyes.Now that it is hung above the head like this, the whole room is illuminated brighter than the daytime.I saw Guiliu grinning at Daiyu, "Girl, is this light bright?"

Daiyu had no choice but to give her a cross look.Zicuckoo asked: "What kind of lamp is this? I've never seen a lamp with the head facing down!"

Guiliu thought for a while and said, "This name...is called Pearl Lantern!"

Zijuan curled her lips: "Who are you coaxing? I haven't seen a pearl lantern before? During the Lantern Festival last year, there was a pair of them hanging in the corridor of the main hall of our garden! They were all gathered up with beads. Where are they? Like this?!"

Guiliu glanced at Daiyu, then hesitated and said, "The same name is not the same thing. Zhu'er Lantern is a common name, and we call it 'Longmai Dragon Lantern'."

Zijuan was still puzzled, and asked carefully but didn't know where to start.