dream of red mansion

Chapter 41

In the Bisha cupboard of Rongqing Hall, after drinking a bowl of decoction, Lin Daiyu felt much better. She leaned on the edge of the bed, stretched her arms, and asked her maid, Zijuan lazily, "What happened to the third sister and the others?" ?”

Zijuan feels a little bit sorry for her new master, who she has only served for less than half a year. She obviously wants to joke with her sisters, but she is too weak and can't blow the wind, so she dare not go out in this kind of weather.

"Third Miss and the others bought a piece of donkey meat from Second Grandma Lian, and now I heard that they went to the east to play with the donkey meat from Second Master Qing."

When Daiyu heard this, she laughed coquettishly and said: "Being targeted by this group of greedy people, this donkey meat deserves to die." Then it occurred to her that the sisters might be talking about the world while eating donkey meat. , so happy.But I can only stay in this stuffy room and can't go out, and I can't help feeling sad.

Suddenly, Daiyu said to Zijuan: "Why don't we go and entertain that piece of donkey meat too? We can't let them take up all the good things!"

Zijuan thought, it might not be good to stay in the house like this all the time, since the girl has this idea, it is also good to go out to get some air, as long as she wears more clothes, and she will take care of her, it will be fine if she thinks about it.

So Zijuan dressed Daiyu and walked to the side of the road together.

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"It's such a good wine and meat, it's a pity that sister Lin is not here, and the food doesn't taste so good!"

In the Yipin Hall, Jia Baoyu took a sip of Sangluo wine and another mouthful of donkey meat, and said with a sad face.

It happened that Jia Qing was also unwilling to lose such a beautiful woman as Sister Lin on such a beautiful day, so he suggested: "Why don't we invite Sister Lin to come again?"

Although Jia Baoyu wanted to do this very much, but thinking of Daiyu's illness, he said, "Forget it, sister Lin is not in good health, she won't come, and my third sister and I didn't agree to come when I invited her..."

Just as Jia Qing wanted to say that staying in the house all the time is not good for recuperation, Tanchun said: "Sister Lin didn't know that we would come to the second brother's side before, so she didn't agree to come out. Now that the second brother is here to be the host, if we don't Call her, maybe you will blame the second brother when we meet in the future! I think the second brother might as well send a maid over to invite her again, maybe she will come."

Jia Qing thought for a while and said: "In this case, it would be more appropriate for me to go there in person. I didn't call Sister Lin here before, so I didn't care. If I just ask the servant girl to invite me now, I don't know why I am annoyed! "

Jia Qing was misled by memory, sister Lin is not so narrow-minded, she has already come here.

Jia Baoyu immediately changed his attitude and said, "Then I'll go with you to call Sister Lin..."

"Brother Bao, it's better not to go. We went to invite her earlier, but she didn't agree. If I see you, even if I originally wanted to come, I might excuse my illness and refuse to come."

Jia Baoyu was discouraged and asked Jia Qing to invite Lin Daiyu alone.

As soon as Jia Qing passed Tianxiang Building, there were still more than [-] steps away from Jiadao, when she saw Lin Daiyu coming out of Jiadao accompanied by two maidservants, Jia Qing hurried forward and said: "I'm talking about calling my sister." , Coincidentally, my sister is here."

Lin Daiyu is not an easy talker, she heard the words and said: "Second elder brother has a lot of wine and meat, so he remembered that there is a younger sister like me, so he came to invite me in a leisurely manner, thinking in his heart, it would be better if he didn't come, Save yourself the trouble."

Jia Qing had no choice but to smile wryly and said: "Where is my sister, how dare I have such an idea. People like my sister are usually not invited. I was just worried that my sister was not healthy and should not be crazy with us. Now the meat roast Well, the wine was hot, so I dared to invite my sister to taste it.

Now that my sister has come here, she must have recovered from her illness, and it happened that we brothers and sisters had a good time together. "After speaking, he took the initiative to stand beside Lin Daiyu and asked her to go first.

Daiyu took a look at Jia Qing, thinking that this cousin would always have such a gentle and jade-like appearance, which was so admirable!He also thought that although Brother Bao was closer to himself than him, his care for him was not weaker than that of Brother Bao.

At the moment, she has no intention of running on him again, and slowly walks ahead, heading towards Yipintang.

Leading Daiyu into the first-class hall, Tanchun asked: "Second brother, did you fly, and invited sister Lin so soon?"

"Where is my problem? I am the sister Lin I met on the road. I didn't run that far."

Daiyu ignored this, and went straight to the roasting table, saying: "I'd like to see what delicious food you have prepared!" She also picked up a skewer of barbecued meat from the plate.

"That's for us to eat. Sister Lin is weak, so just drink some wine..." Baoyu cared beside her.

Lin Daiyu, who was a bit dirty at first, became angry when she heard the words, why can't I eat what you can eat?He brought the roast meat in his hand to his lips, and took a small bite.

Well, it tastes good!

Jia Qing who was next to him looked at her and laughed secretly. This Jia Baoyu really doesn't understand girls' minds, and he also needs to pay attention to methods and methods when persuading others.

Being left aside by Daiyu, Jia Baoyu was not annoyed, he laughed, and picked up a skewer of barbecued meat and ate it himself.

Although the barbecue is delicious, everyone knows that it is not good to eat too much. All the young masters and ladies stopped their mouths in moderation. In this way, the piece of donkey meat was only reduced by a very small piece, mainly Sanchun. Sister Ji and Lin ate too little, but Jia Qing and Jia Baoyu ate more, but they only ate about half a catty each.

Seeing this, Jia Qing ordered the surrounding maids to come and do whatever they wanted to eat. Anyway, there were only a dozen maids around, and they couldn't eat much.

Jia Baoyu and others naturally had nothing to say. Although Tanchun felt that it was not very appropriate, but in Jia Qing's place, of course Jia Qing was the main one, so he didn't say much.

So the maids who have been greedy for a long time can finally have a full meal, and they all come forward to roast some donkey meat more or less.

Jia Qing and other masters were chatting and drinking while watching the scene of girls vying for barbecue.

Jia Baoyu liked such a lively scene very much, he didn't know what came to his mind, he turned to Jia Qing and asked, "Is the second younger brother going to study in Laoshizi Guozi Prison after the Chinese New Year?"

This sentence destroyed the harmonious atmosphere around, and the eyes of the sisters also moved over.

Jia Qing opened his mouth and replied, "That's what happened."

"I really want to read some book, but I can read it at home! It makes us brothers and sisters so lonely, I don't know what is the use of reading?" Jia Baoyu said angrily.

Before Jia Qing said anything, Tanchun also continued: "Although I also hope that our sisters and brothers can always be together, but the second brother is different from us. As a man, he should do his own business after all. Only then can we serve the country and help the family!"

Jia Baoyu said excitedly when he heard the words: "Vulgar! Vulgar! I don't believe what they say if you insist on talking about mediocrity. They all only know about literary remonstrance and martial arts, and they think this is life. The highest pursuit, but do you know that the monarch and the country need them to do so?
They didn't even consider these things. For the sake of their so-called fame, they chose to fight to the death one by one, abandoning the king and the country, but they got the name and died!
Who is not dead?But in my opinion, neither of these two is right death!If it were me, I would rather die now than learn their way of trying to gain fame. "

The shocking words caused the sisters and the surrounding maids to look sideways, worrying if he was being stupid again.

Only Jia Qing knew that Jia Baoyu was not ill, because these words were the initial formation of his belief in life!In the future, he will conclude that he died before the sisters, and then gets their tears, this is the conclusion of the right death!

Regarding this, Jia Qing has nothing to say, Second Master Bao is still as worthy of "admiration" as before. !
In order to prevent Tanchun from arguing with Baoyu and hurting her, Jia Qing quickly stopped Jia Baoyu, saying: "Second brother Bao is right, my younger brother doesn't want to go to the Imperial College to study anything, but it's my father's order. The younger brother has to submit."

In this way, Jia Baoyu transferred his grievances to Jia Jing, and did not dare to speak out.

At this time, Xichun, who had been silent all this time, spoke. She asked Jia Qing softly, "Will my brother still play with us anytime in the future? Will he still bring me presents often? I can't bear my brother~"

Jia Qing was overjoyed when he heard that, he hugged Xichun habitually, pinched her little nose, and said dotingly: "Of course, my sister is so cute, of course my brother will come back to hug my good sister anytime. , and bring her a small gift, otherwise she won't kiss me!"

"No! I will always like my brother!"

Little Xichun made her first vow in life.

Others looked at the scene of their brother and sister loving each other with different expressions.

The sisters are of course touched, and happy for Xichun, she can have such a brother who loves her so much!
Jia Baoyu was different, he felt that Jia Qing really cared about the sisters just like him.The second is to envy Jia Qing for having a sister who is so clingy to him, who can be hugged and loved at any time.He does have a younger sister, but unfortunately she is not much younger than him, and she is extremely assertive, but she will not be so clingy to him. Thinking about it, he subconsciously glanced at Tanchun, who was looking at Jia Qing, with infinite regret in his heart !

Jia Qing chatted with the sisters for a while, and after the maids had almost eaten, Jia Qing sent the sisters back to the West Mansion, and when he returned to Yipintang, the maids also cleaned up the place.

After entering Qingju, Xie Luan asked: "There is so much donkey meat left, what is Second Master going to do?"

Jia Qing asked: "Then do you think it's delicious? Do you still want to eat it?"

Xie Luan said: "People say how delicious donkey meat is, but the taste of this roasted donkey meat is just average, not as good as the one braised in the kitchen when the master celebrated his birthday last time!"

The last time Jia Jing celebrated his birthday, Jia Qing secretly left a portion of donkey meat for Peifeng and the others, and let them taste it. It was indeed more flavorful than barbecue.

"Then you will take it to the kitchen later, and tell Mrs. Zhang and the others to make a pot of stewed donkey meat like last time!"

He happened to ask Wang Shun to bring back a copy for Shuang'er, and he wanted to raise them up white and fat.

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(End of this chapter)