Red Mansion Reader

Chapter 43 My Unmasked Sister
"Auntie, don't let my sister fool you. My sister's surname is Lin, and I remember that the Tongsheng who won the first place in the government examination this year is surnamed Chen. How can they be a family?"

Standing at the corner, Chen Heng couldn't help turning his head slightly. He also wanted to hear what his sister, who had never masked her face, would say.

There was a chuckle from the open door in front of him, and the delicate voice sounded again.

"You don't need to think that his surname is Chen, and his younger sister's surname is Lin. Dad said: Our Lin family doesn't have many relatives. If we really want to talk about relationship, he and my aunt can be regarded as a family."

"Oh? Why is that?"

"It takes a long time to say this. If you really want to say it, you have to start with a paper kite." The lightness and agility in the shallow and soft words, the slightly upturned ending sound, just by listening to it, one can imagine the look on the speaker's face.

kite?Chen Heng raised his eyebrows, he already thought of who this younger sister was, presumably she was the beloved daughter of Senior Zhi Yuan.

If it was her, when it comes to the relationship between wife and teacher, she should really be called sister.Chen Heng shook his head and laughed, and moved a little sideways, just enough to see the scenery of the two corridors.

Since I can't copy the copybooks now, I might as well be a gatekeeper boy, and help this sister Lin, so as to prevent other students from coming and bumping into them.

Chen Heng leaned against the wall behind him, and in the corner in front of him were several delicate daylilies blooming.When Chen Heng got to know this flower, he knew that they had another name, Wangyoucao.Not long after the Dragon Boat Festival, it is their flowering period.

The sound of conversation in the room is still floating in waves.

"Good sister, why are you still playing tricks?"

"The two elder sisters are so ignorant, such a good story can't be put on a table, and then the younger sister is invited to sit on it, can you hear it even after coaxing and persuading?"

"Okay, you know how to play tricks on us."

"Auntie, I think sister Lin is just greedy, and I'm afraid she wants to miss the crab that arrived at our house just the day before yesterday."

"It's all your fault. I had to mention it in the school yesterday, so that it made people think about it."

"Don't talk nonsense, Sister Wei, I think this crab is thinking about me. Otherwise, why would it tell me in a dream last night, insisting that I go and see it?"

"It's not difficult if you want to eat, why don't you ask your brother to think about the painting problem for us this time?"

"Auntie, this is good, this is good."

"It's not so difficult. Isn't it just stepping on the flowers to go back to the horseshoe fragrance? I'll just go back and tell him. Two sisters, my sister will definitely eat the noodles at this table."

"But how will he tell us? Doesn't your brother live in the academy? We can't go to the front hall, and he can't come to the back hall either."

Chen Heng was also taken aback when he heard that, before he could think about the sudden hit on his head, the voice said again: "Tomorrow, after we leave the hall, we will come here again. I asked my brother to hide the answer in the library, and we will find it when the time comes, won't it be fine?"

Good guy, this is clearly arranged for me.But I have never met you, how do you find it in the academy and tell me about it?
Before Chen Heng had time to think about it, he saw two people walking towards him in the distance from the corner of his eye.He hurriedly stamped his feet in place, pretending that someone was approaching from a distance.

The girl in the room was really startled, and only one person said, "Someone is coming, hurry up."

Then I heard footsteps and saw them coming out.Chen Heng immediately greeted the people in the distance, which can be regarded as buying some time for them.

Unfortunately, as soon as he turned around and left, Daiyu who came out first happened to catch a glimpse of the disappearing figure around the corner and a touch of the hem of her clothes flying up.

When did this person come?
How rude to hide in a corner and eavesdrop.

When Daiyu hesitated, her steps inevitably slowed down.Instead, Wei Qijun ran to the front, turned around and waved at her non-stop.

"Sister, let's go."

Wei Qijun's niece, Wei Shu also lowered her voice.

Lin Daiyu, who had regained her senses, nodded, keeping her doubts in her heart, and hurried forward. The three butterflies flew into the flowers and disappeared without a trace.

Chen Heng didn't know whether they would make it or not, so he had to stand in the corridor and chat with the two classmates for a while.Guessing in his heart that the time should be about the same, he said goodbye and left.

When he returned to the dormitory, Qian Dayou couldn't help being a little surprised when he saw that he came back early today, "Why did you come back so soon? Could it be that Du Yunjing is also in the hall?"

Chen Heng shook his head, waved his hand to signal him to continue playing chess with Xue Biao, walked to his position, took a blank piece of paper and began to think.After all, I was called brother so many times in vain, now that I know the situation, I can't stand by and watch.

Stepping on the flowers and returning to the fragrance of horseshoes?How to solve this problem.

Chen Heng always felt that the idea of ​​this question was similar to the ancient poems hidden in the mountains, so he played with Xue Biao to hear it.Sure enough, Xue Biao knew, and told him the allusion while playing chess.

The root of this question still fell on Song Huizong, who used it to test painters at that time.The one who got the leader used the "butterfly flying around its hooves" to solve the problem.

It turned out that the idea I just thought of had already been used by others.Chen Heng shook his head and continued to think of new ways to solve the problem.

Soon, he picked up the pen and hung it on the paper, and first drew the garden covered with flowers, the butterflies resting on the empty stables, and only a bunch of horsetails hanging down could be seen faintly at the arch of the courtyard.

The previous painter concealed the flowers and used butterflies to solve the problem, so he concealed the horseshoe and used flowers to solve the problem.

Chen Heng himself is quite satisfied, and he can be regarded as doing his best to be a brother for this sister Lin.He turned over the drawing paper with a smile, picked up a pen and wrote a few lines on the paper.

After finishing all this, Chen Heng couldn't help but playful, and folded the drawing paper into the shape of a paper crane.Xue Biao and Qian Dayou were surprised when they saw it again and again, and they praised him for his dexterity.

"Is this going to be given away?"

Xue Biao asked curiously, because the paper had been stacked together, so that he could not see clearly what was drawn on it.

"Yes, there is a younger sister from an elder's family who needs my help with a little matter." Chen Heng explained, but did not intend to elaborate on the reasons.

What he said, Jiang Yuanbai was very surprised to hear it, and said straight to Chen Heng: "Good brother, why didn't you tell me about you having a younger sister earlier. From now on, I will call you uncle like brother Xue."

"I'll kill you you bastard." When Xue Biao heard this, he couldn't help but cursed with a smile.

"Hold on, don't panic, both of you." Jiang Yuanbai coughed and said mysteriously, "Actually, I also have two younger sisters. The age of the two is also suitable."

Chen Heng had no choice but to put down his pen and stood up, saying: "It's really hard to listen to, let's do it together, Brother Xue."

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The next day, after class.

Daiyu brought Wei Qijun and Wei Shu to the Tiren Hall as agreed.

Today's weather is a bit sweltering, so Jia specially picked out a blue-colored gauze sleeve dress for Daiyu, a pair of white and tender arms are faintly visible under the gauze.

As soon as Wei Qijun entered the room, he dragged Wei Shu to search for it in the hall.Although these two are aunts and nieces in terms of seniority, Wei Shu, as a niece, is two years older than Wei Qijun.

The old god Lin Daiyu followed behind the two of them, she didn't even ask her 'brother' last night.But I used my left hand to hold the pen, and I wrote an answer and hid it in my sleeve.Just about to wait for these two people to get tired of looking, I will take it out and say that I found it.

Anyway, she is determined to eat this crab feast.

After waiting like this for a while, Daiyu, who pretended to be searching, saw that it was almost time, so she took out the answer she had hidden and said, "Look, didn't I find it?"

"Auntie, Sister Lin, I found it." Wei Shu also raised her hand at the same time, and her two fingers happened to be pinching a small paper crane.

"Huh." Wei Qijun looked at his niece and then at his younger sister Lin, and asked in surprise, "Why are there two older brothers?"

Sister Lin is also at a loss for words, even though she has all kinds of cleverness, she still can't figure out the situation at this moment.I had no choice but to say: "Sister Jiao, don't take something from the wrong person."

Jiaojiao is Wei Shu's nickname.

Wei Shu shook her head, and spread out the paper cranes as she walked, "Look, isn't this painting about stepping on flowers and returning to the fragrance of horseshoes?"

The drawing paper was passed to Wei Qijun, she took a sneak peek at it, covered it again, and said to Lin Daiyu, "Sister Lin, quickly open your share and have a look."

Daiyu felt inexplicably guilty, and at this moment she didn't know which share to say was wrong.I had no choice but to reach out and open the answer I had drawn.

Wei Qijun glanced at it, and exclaimed on the spot: "Ah." She raised her hand to greet her niece, "Jiaojiao, come and see." As she spoke, she also extended the drawing paper in her hand to Daiyu.

The two pieces of drawing paper are placed together, and they are all drawn with the same idea of ​​solving the problem, with only subtle changes.

"How could it be such a coincidence?" Wei Shu also felt strange, a pair of bright eyes fell straight on Daiyu like knives.Daiyu also didn't understand, and even though she felt extremely weird, she could only laugh dryly and said, "I think my brother was confused for a while, so he drew an extra picture. Maybe it's because he was worried that we wouldn't be able to find it."

Hearing her explanation, Wei Qijun nodded and thought it made sense.Seeing that someone was willing to believe it, Daiyu couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief, the blush on her face receded a little.

"Auntie, look. There are words on the back of this paper."

Wei Shu's eyes lit up, and she pointed excitedly at the one in Wei Qijun's hand.Mr. Wei Qi turned over the drawing paper according to his words, looked at the words on it, read while reading: "Sister: Crabs are cold in nature, don't eat too much. Brother stay."

The pair of aunt and niece looked at each other, and they all focused on Daiyu, saying in unison.

"Good sister, why don't you show us the backside of the drawing paper in your hand."

Now, how could Daiyu not guess that the figure from the back yesterday was Chen Heng.I couldn't help feeling ashamed and annoyed in my heart, thinking to myself that this person is really annoying, eavesdropping is fine, he didn't even say hello to me, he made his own decisions, and put me in an embarrassing situation.

When Daiyu panicked, the red clouds that had faded away appeared again on her cheeks, and her skin was fair enough to set off the two red clouds in the sky.

Wei Shu looked at such a scene, and couldn't help saying: "My good sister, it seems that you can't eat this crab."

　It was finally written, and I wrote a total of four versions.However, considering the later interaction, I decided to use this.

　　I will update Chapter 2 first, and I will recollect it by myself at night to see if I can write a better one.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)