Dream of the Red Mansion

It's said that when everyone saw Ping'er coming, they all said, "what's your grandma doing? Why didn't you come?" Tell me to ask if there are any more, tell me to take some to eat at home." Xiangyun said: "Yes, there are more." Busy people took ten very large ones.Ping'er said: "Take a few more navels." They sat down with Ping'er again, but Ping'er refused.Li Wan pulled him and said with a smile, "I want you to sit." Pulling him to sit beside him, he brought a glass of wine to his mouth.Ping'er hurriedly took a sip and was about to leave.Li Wan said: "You are not allowed to go. It is obvious that only Feng girl will not listen to me." Then he ordered the mothers and mothers: "First send the box, and say that I have left Ping'er." He took the box back and said: "The second grandma said, tell grandma and the girls to stop joking and eat. This box contains the water chestnut cake and chicken oil rolls sent by my uncle and wife just now, for grandma and girls to eat." Then he said to Ping'er, "If I tell you to come, you will be greedy and stubborn. I advise you to drink less." Ping'er laughed and said, "What will happen to me if I drink too much?" "On the one hand, he just drinks and eats crabs. Li Wan hugged him and smiled." It's a pity that such a good-looking person has an ordinary life, and he can only be ordered around the house.People who don't know, who don't regard you as a grandma and wife. "

While eating and drinking with Baochai Xiangyun, Ping'er turned back and smiled and said, "Grandma, don't just touch me so itchy." Li Shi said, "Oh! What is this hard thing?" Ping'er said, "The key " Li said: "What key? The most important thing is that I am afraid that someone will steal it, but I carry it with me. I joke with people all day long. There is a Tang monk who learns scriptures, and there is a white horse to carry him. Liu Zhiyuan conquered the world. There is a melon essence to send armor, there is a phoenix girl, there is you. You are the master key of your grandma, what do you need this key for?" Ping'er laughed and said: "Grandma ate wine and took it again. I'm here to make fun of you." Baochai laughed and said, "That's the truth. We have nothing to criticize. You can't pick one out of a hundred. The beauty is that everyone has their own merits. Benefits." Li Wan said: "There is a reason for both big and small. For example, in the old lady's room, what would happen if there were no mandarin ducks. Starting from the wife, whoever dared to refute the old lady's reply, now he dares to refute it. The old lady only listens to him People's words. The old lady's clothes, others don't remember, but he remembers them. If he hadn't managed them, I don't know how many people have been deceived. The child is also fair. He doesn't bully people according to the situation." Xichun laughed and said, "The old lady said yesterday that he is better than us." Ping'er said, "That's a good one. We can compare with him there." Baoyu said "Caixia in my wife's room is an honest person." Tanchun said, "No, he's honest on the outside and knows what's in his heart. My wife is so Buddha-like. He knows when she doesn't pay attention to things. Everything is done. He was the one who carried his wife. He knew all about the master's going out at home. The wife forgot, so he told her behind her back."

Li Wan said, "That's all." Pointing to Baoyu, he said, "If it weren't for the attackers in this young master's house, what kind of land would you measure! Feng girl is the overlord of Chu, and she has these two arms to lift a thousand catties. He If it's not this girl, then she has to be so thoughtful!" Ping'er laughed and said, "I accompanied four girls, and they died and went away, and I was the only one left." Li Wan said: "You have good fortune. Yes. Feng girl also has good luck. I think when your uncle Zhu was in Japan, there were never two people. You think I still can’t tolerate people? I only see two of them uncomfortable every day. So once your uncle Zhu is gone, I sent them all away while I was young. If there is one who can hold on, I have an arm." As he spoke, tears fell.They all said, "Why be sad? It's better to be separated." Then they all washed their hands and asked Mrs. Jia Muwang to say hello.

All the women and girls cleaned the pavilion and cleared away the cups and dishes.Xiren and Ping'er went forward together, and asked Ping'er to sit in the room and have another cup of tea.Ping'er said, "I don't want to drink tea anymore, let's come again." Then he wanted to go out.The attacker stopped again and asked, "Even the old lady and the lady haven't released the monthly money for this month. Why?" Ping'er saw and asked, and hurriedly turned to the attacker. Seeing that there was no one there, he whispered: "Don't ask, it will be released a few days later anyway." Xiren smiled and said, "Why is this, so that you are so frightened?" Ping'er told him quietly: "Our grandma has already paid for this month's money. Let it go to someone else. Wait until the interest money from other places is collected and collected. I will tell you because it is you. You are not allowed to tell anyone." Xiren said: "Is he still short? Don't you feel tired of money envoys? Why bother with it?" Ping'er laughed and said, "Why not? In the past few years, I have found out hundreds of money for this item of money. No, he saved it up in twos and eights and let it out, only his own interest, less than a year, thousands of silver." Xiren laughed and said: "Take our money, your master and slave will earn interest , coaxed us to wait blankly." Ping'er said: "You said something unconscionable again. Don't you still have less money to send?" Xi Ren said: "Although I have a lot, but I have no place to use it, so I just Prepare our one." Ping'er said: "If you need money for something important, I still have a few taels of silver, you can use it first, and I will withhold yours tomorrow."

Xi Ren said: "I don't need it right now, I'm afraid it won't be enough for a while, so I'll just send someone to get it."

Ping'er agreed, and went out of the garden gate all the way to the house, only to see that Sister Feng was not in the room.Suddenly, Grandma Liu and Ban'er, who had come back to make money, came again. They were sitting in the room over there, accompanied by Zhou Rui's family from Zhang Cai's family, and two or three girls were emptying dates and pumpkins in their pockets on the ground. And some wild vegetables.When everyone saw him coming in, they all stood up hurriedly.Grandma Liu knew Ping'er's identity because she had been here last time, so she jumped off the ground to say "Hi, girl" and said: "Hello from everyone at home. I was going to invite my aunt, An, to see the girl, because the dealer is busy. It was very difficult." This year, I harvested two stones more grain, and there are plenty of melons, fruits and vegetables. I picked the heads together, and I didn’t dare to sell them. I kept the tops to honor my aunts and girls. The girls are tired of eating delicacies from mountains and seas every day. This It's our poor heart to eat something wild." Ping'er hurriedly said: "Thank you for your trouble." He let me sit down again, and I sat down myself.Then let "Aunt Zhang and Aunt Zhou sit down", and let the little girl pour tea.Zhou Rui and Zhangcai's family said with a smile: "The girl's face is a bit springy today, and the circles of her eyes are red." Ping'er laughed and said: "That's not true. I didn't eat it originally, the grandma and the girls just eat it. I had no choice but to drink two cups, and my face turned red." Zhang Cai's family said with a smile: "I want to eat, but no one will let me. Someone will invite the girl tomorrow, but take me there. That's it." Everyone laughed.Zhou Rui's family said: "I saw the crab when I got up early, and I had to weigh two or three for a catty. Such three big baskets weigh seventy or eighty catties." Zhou Rui's family said: "If it goes up and down, I'm afraid it's not enough "Ping'er said: "There is enough, but the famous ones eat two pieces. Those who are scattered, some can be touched, and some can't be touched." Grandma Liu said: "Such crabs are worth five cents this year. One catty. Ten catties and five qian, five five two two five, three five ten fifteen, plus wine and vegetables, a total of more than 20 taels of silver. Amitabha! The money for this meal is enough for our farming family to live for a year." Ping'er asked, "I think you have seen grandma?" Grandma Liu said, "Yes, and told us to wait." Then he looked out the window to see the weather, and said, "It's getting late, let's go too. Don’t get out of the city, it’s a famine.” Zhou Rui’s family said: “That’s true, I’ll take a look for you.” He walked all the way, and came half a day later, and said with a smile: “But your old fortune has come, I have chosen the fate of these two people." When Ping'er asked what happened, Zhou Rui's family smiled and said: "The second grandma is in front of the old lady. I told the second grandma quietly. Grandma Liu wants to go home, I'm afraid I can't get out of the city when I'm too late. The second grandma said: "It's too far away. It's hard for him to carry those heavy things. If I'm late, I will stay overnight and go tomorrow. This is not the fate of the second grandma. That's all. The old lady of Bisheng heard it again and asked who Grandma Liu was. The second grandma understood. The old lady said: I was just thinking of talking to an old man who has been around for a long time, so please come and see me. It's gone." Saying that, he urged Grandma Liu to come down and go.Grandma Liu said: "It's so easy to see me in this life. Good sister-in-law, just say I'm gone." Ping'er hurriedly said: "Go quickly, it's irrelevant. Our old lady cherishes the elderly most Poor people are no match for those crazy and cheating people. I think you are timid, and I will take you there with Mrs. Zhou." Then, with Zhou Rui's family, he led Grandma Liu to Jiamu's side.

Seeing Ping'er coming out, the boys in the class at the second gate all stood up, and two more ran up, chasing Ping'er and calling her "girl".Ping'er asked, "What did you say?" The boy laughed and said, "It's too late now, my mother is sick, and I'm waiting for a doctor. Good girl, can I ask for a half-day vacation?" Ping'er The son said: "It's good for you. It's been negotiated. One day a day, one day off, and don't go back to grandma, just hang out with me. My son went to live with him, and the second master called him, but he couldn't. I answered, and said I made love. You are here again today." Zhou Rui's family said: "It's true that his mother is sick, and the girl will take care of him, let him go." Ping'er said: "Come early tomorrow morning. Listen. , I want to make you come again when you sleep in the sun and bask in your buttocks! When you go, bring a letter to Wang'er, just say what grandma said, and ask him for the remaining interest. If you don't pay tomorrow Come, grandma doesn't want it anymore, I will send him to work." The young man happily agreed to go.

Ping'er and others came to Jiamu's room. At that time, the sisters in the Grand View Garden were worshiping in front of Jiamu.When Grandma Liu went in, she saw that the house was surrounded by pearls and emerald greens, and all kinds of flowers were blooming, but she didn't know who it belonged to.I saw an old woman leaning on a couch, and behind her was a maidservant wrapped in gauze who was like a beauty, beating her legs, and Sister Feng was standing and talking and laughing.Grandma Liu knew it was Jia's mother, so she hurried up to laugh with her, wished her a few blessings, and said, "Good morning, old birthday star." Jia's mother also bowed to say hello, and ordered Zhou Rui's family to bring a chair to sit on.That board is still timid and doesn't know how to greet.Mother Jia said: "Old relative, how old are you this year?" Grandma Liu hurriedly stood up and replied, "I am 75 this year."

Jia's mother said to everyone: "I'm so old, but still so healthy. I'm a few years older than me. I'm going to be so old, I don't know why I can't move." Grandma Liu laughed: "We are born to suffer. , the old lady was born to enjoy life. If we are like this, there will be no one to do those farming jobs." Jia Mu said: "Are your eyes and teeth okay?" Grandma Liu said: "Everything is okay, it is the molar on the left side this year. I'm active." Jia Mu said: "I'm old, I'm useless, my eyes are blurred, my ears are deaf, and my memory is gone. I don't remember you old relatives. When relatives come, I'm afraid of people Laugh at me, I don’t know how to do it, but I can chew and eat a few bites, sleep, and play with these grandchildren when I’m bored.” Grandma Liu said with a smile: “This is the blessing of the old lady. We can't do that if we think about it." Jia Mu said, "What a blessing, he's just an old trash." Everyone laughed.Jia Mu laughed again and said, "I just heard Brother Feng say that you brought a lot of melons and vegetables and told him to pack them up quickly. I was just thinking of eating melons and vegetables picked from the field. I bought them outside, no It's as delicious as the ones in your fields." Grandma Liu said with a smile, "it's wild, but it's fresh. We want to eat fish and meat, but we can't afford it." Mother Jia said again, "I recognize it today. Honey, don’t just go there when you’re free. If you don’t mind my place, just stay for a day or two before going. We also have a garden, and there are fruits in the garden. You can try it tomorrow and bring some home. You can count it as a visit to relatives. Seeing that Jia's mother liked it, Sister Feng hurriedly stayed and said, "Although our place is not bigger than your yard, there are still two empty rooms. You can stay for two days, and tell us some news stories about your place. Listen, madam." Jia Mu laughed and said, "Don't make fun of him, Feng girl. He is from the village, honestly, there is room for you to make fun of him." Then, she ordered someone to grab the fruit and board first. children to eat.Ban'er saw too many people, but dared not eat it.Mother Jia ordered to give him some money, and asked the younger children to take him outside.After drinking tea, Grandma Liu told Jia Mu what she had seen and heard in the village, and Jia Mu became more and more interesting.Just as she was talking, Sister Feng sent someone to invite Grandma Liu to dinner.Jia Mu picked up some of her own dishes and ordered someone to send them over to eat with Grandma Liu.

Sister Feng knew that Jia Mu liked it, so she sent her back after dinner.Yuanyang hurriedly asked the old woman to take Grandma Liu to take a bath, and then she picked out two casual clothes for Grandma Liu to change into.Grandma Liu had seen such behavior there, so she hurriedly changed her clothes and came out, sat in front of Jiamu's couch, and searched for something to say.Baoyu's sisters were also sitting here at that time. They had never heard these words, and felt that they were better than those books written by Mr. Blind.Although Grandma Liu is a villager, she was born with some knowledge. Besides, she is old and experienced in the world. She was happy to see Jia Mu for the first time, and the second time she saw that these brothers and sisters liked to listen, so she had nothing to say and made up Say something.Yin said: "In our village, we plant land and vegetables. Every day, every day, in spring, summer, autumn and winter, in the wind and rain, there is a sitting space. Every day, we build a pavilion for resting horses on the head of the field. What's so strange?" The strange thing is gone. Just like last winter, it snowed for several days in a row, and the ground was pressed three or four feet deep. I got up early that day, and before I left the room, I only heard the sound of firewood outside. I thought it must be Someone is stealing firewood. I climbed through the window to see, but it's not from our village." Jiamu said: "The passing guests must be cold. Seeing the ready-made firewood, there may be some to warm up the fire. "Grandma Liu laughed and said, "I'm not a guest either, so it's strange. Who is the old birthday star? It turned out to be a very beautiful girl of seventeen or eighteen years old, with slick hair and a big red coat. , white silk skirt ____" just said here, suddenly heard people outside shouting, and said: "It's irrelevant, don't scare the old lady." There is water in the stable in the yard, it’s irrelevant, it’s been rescued.” Mother Jia, who was the most timid, got up and helped people out to the porch to have a look, and saw the fire still bright on the southeast.Jia Mu chanted Buddha in her mouth, and hurriedly ordered people to burn incense in front of the Vulcan.Mrs. Wang and others came over to say hello, and said, "I've already gone down. Please come in, old lady." Jia Mu watched the fire die down before leading the people in.Baoyu was busy asking Grandma Liu, "Why does the girl smoke firewood in the heavy snow? What if she gets sick from the cold?" Jia Mu said, "It's just that the fire is caused by the firewood. You still ask. Don't say it." That's it, let's talk about other things." Baoyu heard that although he was unhappy in his heart, he had no choice but to let it go.Grandma Liu thought about another article, and said: "There is an old woman in the village on the east side of our Zhuangzi. She is over 90 years old this year. He eats fast every day and chants Buddha, who knows that he moved Guanyin Bodhisattva to come to dream at night and say: You are so devout. , It turns out that you should be unique, and now you have played the Jade Emperor, and I will give you a grandson. It turns out that this old lady only had one son, and this son only had one son. She managed to raise him until he died at the age of seventeen or eighteen, crying for something. As expected, I raised another one, who was only thirteen or fourteen years old this year, and was born like a snow ball, very smart. It can be seen that there are such gods and Buddhas." This evening's conversation really fit Mrs. Jia Muwang's mind. Mrs. Wang also listened.

Baoyu only remembers the story of drawing firewood in his heart, because he is stuffy in his heart planning.Tanchun asked him, "Yesterday I disturbed Sister Shi. Let's go back and discuss inviting a society. After returning the banquet, we should also invite the old lady to enjoy the chrysanthemums. How about it?" Baoyu laughed and said, "The old lady said that there will be wine Return Sister Shi's table and ask us to accompany you. Waiting to eat the old lady's, let's invite you later." Tanchun said: "The further you go, the colder it gets, the old lady may not be happy." Baoyu said: "Old lady My wife also likes rain and snow. Why don’t we wait for the first snow and invite the old lady to enjoy the snow? It’s more interesting for us to sing poems in the snow.” Lin Daiyu hurriedly laughed: “Let’s sing poems in the snow? I said, it would be more interesting to get a bundle of firewood and pull it under the snow." Baochai and others all laughed.Baoyu glanced at him and didn't answer.

After a while, Baoyu pulled Grandma Liu behind her back and asked who the girl was.Grandma Liu had no choice but to make up and tell him: "That was originally offered in a small ancestral hall on the ridge along the north side of our Zhuangzhuang. It's not a god or Buddha. There was some kind of master before."Baoyu said, "You don't have to think about your name or surname. Just tell me the reason." Grandma Liu said, "This master has no sons, but only one lady named Mingyu. The lady is literate, and the master and his wife love each other like you." Zhenbao. It is a pity that Miss Mingyu was born at the age of 17 and died of illness." Baoyu fell to her feet and sighed after hearing this, and asked what happened next.Grandma Liu said: "Because the old lady couldn't stop thinking about it, she built this ancestral hall, made a statue of Miss Mingyu, and sent people to burn incense and set the fire. Now, after a long time, people are gone, and the temple is also rotten. , That image becomes a spirit." Baoyu hurriedly said: "It's not becoming a spirit. According to the rules, people can't die even if they die." Grandma Liu said: "Amitabha! That's how it is. It's not my brother who said, we all regard him as a spirit. He often changes into a different person and comes out to wander around the shops in various villages. I just said that he is the one who draws the firewood. People in our village are still discussing to knock down the statue and level the temple." Baoyu hurriedly said: "Don't do that If the temple is leveled, the crime is not small." Grandma Liu said, "Fortunately, my brother told me that I will go back and tell them tomorrow." Baoyu said, "Our old lady and wife are all good people, and the whole family is good too. Shanxishe, I like to build temples and sculpture gods the most. I will make a shuntou tomorrow and make some donations for you. Wouldn't it be good for you to pay for incense?" Grandma Liu said, "If so, I will have some money thanks to that lady." Baoyu asked him the name of the place and the name of the village, the distance he traveled, and where he was located.Grandma Liu then made nonsense.

Believing it was true, Baoyu went back to his room and spent the night thinking about it.Early the next morning, he came out and gave Mingyan a few hundred dollars. According to the direction and place names that Grandma Liu had said, he went with Mingyan to take a look first, and then make up his mind when he came back.After Mingyan left, Baoyu didn't come when he waited left or right, like ants on a hot pot in a hurry.It was so easy to wait until the sunset to see Mingyan come back happily.Baoyu hurriedly said, "Is there a temple?" Mingyan smiled and said, "I didn't understand what I heard, so I asked me to find it. The place name and location are not what I said, so I searched for a day and found Shangtian ridge in the northeast. There is only a ruined temple up there." When Baoyu heard that, he beamed with joy and said hurriedly: "Grandma Liu is an old person, and sometimes she made a mistake in her memory. Just say you saw it." Mingyan said: "That temple gate But it is facing south, and it is also sparse. I was looking for it. I was angry, and when I saw this, I said, "Okay, let's go in quickly. When I saw the mud tire, I ran out of it, and it seemed real." Baoyu He smiled happily: "He can change people, so he is naturally a little angry."

Mingyan clapped her hands and said, "What girl is there? It's a blue-faced and red-haired God of Plague." Baoyu listened, spat, and scolded, "What a useless murderer! You can't do such a thing." " Mingyan said: "I don't know what books the second master read, or who listened to the nonsense, he believed it, and sent me to meet this stupid matter, how can I be useless?" Baoyu saw He was in a hurry, so he comforted him and said, "Don't worry. You can look for it when you are free some other day. If he coaxed us, it would be gone. If there really was one, wouldn't you have accumulated a lot of shame. I will be serious. Thank you." As I was talking, I saw the boy on the second door say: "The girls in the old lady's room are standing at the second door looking for the second master."

"The girls in the old lady's room are standing at the second door looking for the second master." Said "The girls in the old lady's room are standing at the second door looking for the second master." "The girls in the old lady's room are standing at the second door looking for the second master." Where is the second master." Said, "The girls in the old lady's room are standing at the second door looking for the second master."