Dream of the Red Mansion

It is said that his sister came back to the garden, had dinner, and everyone left without saying anything else.

Let's say that Grandma Liu came to see Sister Feng first with a board, and said, "I must go home early tomorrow morning. Although I have lived for two or three days, there are not many days. I have never seen, eaten, or eaten anything in the past and present. I have heard it, I have experienced it. It is rare that old ladies, aunts, ladies, and even the girls in each room are so pitiful and take care of me. I have no other rewards after I go back, only to invite some high incense I will chant Buddha to you every day, and bless you with a long life, it is my heart." Sister Feng said with a smile: "Don't like it. It's all because of you, the old lady was also sick by the wind, and it's hard to sleep. Our eldest sister also caught a cold, and she has a fever there." Grandma Liu sighed after hearing this: "The old lady is old, and she is not used to being very tired." Sister Feng said: "I have never been as happy as yesterday. I used to go to the garden for a walk, but I came back after sitting in one or two places. Yesterday, because you were here, I asked you to take a look around, and half of a garden was gone. The eldest sister asked me to go, and the wife handed it over. Give him a piece of cake, but after eating it in the wind, he will get hot."

Grandma Liu said: "Miss, I'm afraid I won't go into the garden very much. The little people's house shouldn't go to the place where I live. It's not as good as our children. They will leave, and they won't go to the graveyard. A wind blows There are also some, and the other is that he is clean, his eyes are clean, or he has met some kind of god. According to me, show him the book of evil spirits, and he will catch him carefully." A word reminded Sister Feng, and then Ask Ping'er to take out the "Jade Box Record" and read it with Caiming.Caiming turned it over and read: "On August 25th, the sick will meet the God of Flowers in the southeast. Use forty pieces of five-color paper money and send them forty steps to the southeast. Good luck." Sister Feng said with a smile: " Sure enough, there is no flower god in the garden! I'm afraid the old lady will meet you too." While ordering someone to ask for two cents of paper money, two people came, one with Jia Mu to send the ghost, and the other with the elder sister to send the ghost.Sure enough, I saw my eldest sister sleeping soundly.

Sister Feng said with a smile: "After all, you old people have experienced a lot. My eldest sister is often sick, and I don't know why." Grandma Liu said: "This is also the case. The children raised by rich and noble families are too delicate. Naturally, I can't bear some grievances, and he is too noble in his petty family, so I can't bear it. From now on, my aunt and grandma will love him less." Sister Feng said: "This is also reasonable. I think of it, he is not a man yet. Name, you can give him a name. One is to borrow your life, and the other is that you are farmers, so you are not afraid of being angry. After all, you are poorer. If you give a name to the poor, I am afraid that he will be overwhelmed.” Grandma Liu When I heard about it, I thought about it and said with a smile, "I don't know when he was born?" Sister Feng said, "It's just a bad birthday. It happens to be the seventh day of July." Grandma Liu laughed quickly and said, "This Just right, let’s call him Brother Qiaoer. This is called the method of fighting poison with poison, and fighting fire with fire. My aunt and grandma must bear my name, and he will live a long life. What you want to do must be good fortune in disasters, and good luck in every calamity, but it comes from this clever word." Sister Feng was very happy when she heard this, thanked her quickly, and then smiled: "Just bless him to answer your words. It's time." Then he called Ping'er to give instructions: "We have something to do tomorrow, so I'm afraid we won't be free. You have packed up the things for grandma in your spare time, and it will be easier for him to leave early in the morning." Grandma Liu is busy Said: "I don't dare to spend more money. I have been disturbed for a few days, and I took it away again, and I became more and more uneasy." Sister Feng said: "It's nothing, but it's just a usual thing. Whether it's good or bad, take it with you. Go, your neighbors in the neighborhood are more lively, and it's also a trip to the city." I saw Ping'er coming and said, "Grandma, pass by here and have a look." Grandma Liu hurriedly drove Ping'er to the room over there, only to see the pile of With a half Kang thing.Ping'er took them one by one and looked at him, and said, "This is a piece of green gauze you asked for yesterday, and grandma gave you another piece of solid white gauze for lining. These are two cocoon silks, which are suitable for jackets and skirts. Good. There are two bolts of silk in this bundle, which will be used to make clothes for next year. This is a box of various home-made snacks, some you have eaten and some you have not eaten. Take it to treat guests on a plate, which is better than the ones you bought. Be stronger. These two pockets were filled with melons and fruits yesterday. Now this one contains two buckets of japonica rice, which is rare for making porridge. This one contains fruits from the garden and various dried fruits. This bag It’s eight taels of silver. It’s all our grandma’s. Each of these two packs contains 50 taels, a total of 100 taels. It’s from my wife who asked you to take it or make a small business, or buy a few acres of land. Seeking relatives and friends." Then he smiled quietly: "These two jackets and two skirts, and four pieces of Baotou, a bag of wool, but I gave it to grandma. Although the clothes are old, I am not too old If you want to dislike me, I dare not say it." Ping'er said the same thing, and Grandma Liu just recited one sentence of Buddha, and she has recited thousands of times, and seeing Ping'er also give him these things, she was so humble and busy. Recited the Buddha and said: "What did the girl say? I still dislike such a good thing! I have money and I have no place to buy it. It's just that I am ashamed. It is not good to accept it, and I have failed the girl's heart if I don't accept it." Ping'er laughed and said, "Don't talk nonsense, we are all ourselves, I am like this. You can take it at ease, I still want something from you, and by the end of the year, you will only dry the gray strip vegetable that you have dried Let’s bring some dried vegetables like lentils, cowpeas, lentils, eggplants, and gourd strips. We all like to eat them here. Forget about this, and don’t want anything else, so don’t bother.” Grandma Liu thanked her for her promise up.Ping'er said: "You just go to sleep. I'll pack it up for you and put it here. I'll send the boys to hire a car to install it in the morning. You don't need to worry about it." Grandma Liu was more and more grateful When I came over, I thanked Sister Feng and said goodbye. I slept all night on the side of Jiamu, and I was about to leave the next morning after washing up.Because Jia Mu was not well, everyone came to say hello, and went out to send a message to the doctor.Suddenly the mother-in-law came back to the doctor.The old mother asked Jia Mu to sit under the curtain.Jia Mu said: "I'm old too. I can't raise that thing there. I'm afraid he won't succeed! Don't put up the curtain, just look at it like this." After hearing this, all the women took a small table and Put down a small pillow and order someone to invite you.

For a while, Jia Zhen, Jia Lian and Jia Rong were leading the imperial doctor Wang.Physician Wang did not dare to take the path, but only took the side steps, and followed Jia Zhen to the steps.Earlier, two women had opened the curtains on both sides. The two women led the way in, and Baoyu came out to welcome them.I saw Jia Mu wearing a sheepskin gown made of green wrinkled silk and a bucket of pearls, sitting on the couch, four maidservants with no hair left on both sides were holding fly brooms to wash bowls and other things, and there were five or six old mothers with wild goose wings. Placed on both sides, there are many people wearing red and green hairpin beads behind the green gauze cabinet.Physician Wang didn't dare to look up, and rushed up to say hello.When Jia's mother saw that he was wearing a six-rank suit, she knew that he was an imperial doctor, so she asked with a smile, "How about the enshrinement?" Because she asked Jia Zhen, "What is your surname?" Jia Zhen and others hurriedly replied, "My surname is Wang."Jia's mother said: "Wang Junxiao in the main hall of the Imperial Hospital that day, he has a good pulse." Wang Taiyi hurriedly bowed his head and said with a smile, "That's the uncle who gave birth to the family at night." .” As he said, he slowly stretched out his hand and put it on the small pillow.The old mother is holding a small scorpion: quickly put it on the small table, slightly to the side.Physician Wang bent his knees and sat down, tilted his head and examined the hand for half a day, then he examined the hand again, bowed his body and bowed his head to leave.Jia's mother laughed and said, "It's time to work. Let Zhen'er go out to watch tea." Jia Zhen and Jia Lian answered "yes" a few times in a hurry, and took Wang Taiyi back to the study outside.Doctor Wang said: "Mrs. Tai has no other symptoms. I occasionally feel a little cold. After all, I don't need to take medicine, but it's a little lighter and warmer. Now I write a prescription here. If the old man likes to eat, he can follow the prescription." Decoct one dose and eat it, if you are too lazy to eat it, then it’s fine.” After drinking tea, he wrote the prescription.Just when I was about to leave, I saw my grandma come out with my eldest sister in my arms, and said with a smile, "Master Wang also looked at us." Doctor Wang heard that he was busy getting up, so he held the elder sister's hand in his left hand and made a diagnosis with his right hand. , touched his head again, and asked to stick out his tongue to have a look, and said with a smile: "I said that my sister scolded me again, but I just want to be hungry for two meals. You don't need to take decoction, I will send you pills Come, grind ginger soup before going to bed, and just eat it." After saying that, he left.

Jia Zhen waited for the prescription to come, and went back to Ming Jia's mother's reason, put the prescription on the table and went out, no problem.Here Mrs. Wang, Li Wan, Sister Feng and Sister Baochai came out from behind the cupboard when they saw the doctor go out.Mrs. Wang sat down for a while and went back to her room.

Seeing that nothing happened, Grandma Liu came up to say goodbye to Jia Mu.Jia Mu said, "Come back when you're free." Then she ordered Yuanyang to come: "It's a good thing to send Grandma Liu out. I'm not well, so I can't send you off."When they arrived at the servant's room, Yuanyang pointed to a bundle on the kang and said: "These are the clothes of the old lady. They were all respected by everyone on birthdays in previous years. The old lady never wears other people's clothes. It's a pity to keep them, but it's a one-time dress." I didn’t wear them either. Yesterday I asked me to take out two sets for you to take, either as a gift, or to wear at home. Don’t laugh at me. This box is the dough you asked for. This bun is your former The medicine my son mentioned: I also have the plum blossom tongue pill, the purple gold ingot, the Huoluo pill, and the life-saving pill, each of which is wrapped in a prescription, and it is always wrapped in it. These are two purses, take them with you." As he spoke, he pulled out the tie, took out two Ruyi pen ingots, showed him, and said with a smile, "Take the purse, and leave this to me." Grandma Liu was overjoyed, and had already read a few thousand more Sound Buddha, hearing what Yuanyang said, she said, "Girl, just stay." Seeing that he believed it, Yuanyang still pretended to be with him, and said with a smile, "I'm coaxing you to be stubborn. I have better things. Keep it for the next year. Let's go, children." As he spoke, he saw a little girl handing a kiln bell to Grandma Liu, "This is from Master Bao." Grandma Liu said, "That's where I started. My I cultivated it in my previous life, so it’s like this today.” Then he took it.The mandarin duck said: "I asked you to take a bath a while ago, and the clothes you changed belonged to me. You don't mind. I still have a few more, so I'll give them to you too." Grandma Liu thanked again.Yuanyang took out two more pieces and wrapped them with him.Grandma Liu is going to the garden to say goodbye to Baoyu and all her sisters, Mrs. Wang and so on.Yuanyang said: "No need to go. They won't see anyone for a while, so I'll tell you when I come back. Come back when you're free." Another old woman was ordered and told him: "Call two young men at the second gate to help you. Grandma took the things and sent them out." The mother-in-law agreed, and went to Sister Feng's side with Grandma Liu to get the things together, ordered the boys to move them out at the corner gate, and sent Grandma Liu to the car.No problem.

Besides, after Baochai had had breakfast, he went to ask Mother Jia how he was. When he returned to the garden to the place where the road diverged, Baochai called Daiyu and said, "Come with me, I have a word to ask you." With Baochai, I came to Hengwu Garden.After entering the room, Baochai sat down and said with a smile, "Kneel down, I'm going to interrogate you." Puzzled, Daiyu smiled and said, "You see, Baochai is crazy! What are you interrogating me for?" Baochai sneered. "What a daughter! What a girl who doesn't go out of the boudoir! What are you talking about? You just tell the truth." Daiyu was puzzled. She just laughed, and she couldn't help but feel puzzled. She just said, "I What did you ever say? You just want to pinpoint my fault. I'll listen to you if you tell me." Baochai laughed and said, "You are still pretending to be a fool. What did you say about the drinking order yesterday? I don't know where it came from. Yes." Thinking about it, Daiyu recalled that she had lost control yesterday, and after saying a few words at the Peony Pavilion gt; gt; lt; lt; The Story of the West Chamber gt; gt; Putting her arms around Baochai, she said with a smile, "My good sister, I just said it casually without knowing it. You teach me, and I won't say it anymore."

Baochai laughed and said, "I don't know either. It's strange to hear what you said, so I'd like to ask you." Daiyu said, "My dear sister, don't talk to others. I won't tell you again." Baochai was ashamed to see him His face was flushed, and he was full of pleadings, so he refused to ask any more questions, so he sat down to have tea, and told him politely: "Who do you think I am, I am also a naughty one. Enough for personal entanglement. Our family is also considered a scholarly family, and my grandfather also loved collecting books. At first, the population was large, and sisters and brothers were all together, so they were afraid of reading serious books. Brothers also love poetry and poetry. Things like these. The West Chamber, the Pipa, and the Yuan Dynasty. There are hundreds of different types of people. They secretly look behind our backs, but we also secretly look behind their backs. Later, when the adults found out, they beat, scolded, burned It’s because of the fever that we threw it away. So it’s better for us girls who can’t read. Men who don’t know how to read are better than those who don’t read, let alone you and me. Even writing poems and writing is not our part. After all, it’s not a man’s job. It’s good for men to read and understand, and help the country and the people. But now I don’t hear such people, and it’s even worse after reading the book. It’s the book that misled him. It's a pity that he also ruined the book, so it's better to cultivate and trade, and there is no great harm. You and I should only do some needlework and weaving, but I can read characters. Forget it, I'm most afraid that if I read some miscellaneous books and change my temperament, it will be irretrievable." After speaking, Daiyu bowed her head to drink tea, her heart secretly crouched, and she only agreed to "yes".Suddenly Suyun came in and said, "Our grandma has asked the two girls to discuss something important. The second girl, the third girl, the fourth girl, Miss Smith, and Master Bao are all waiting there." Baochai said, "What is it?" What?" Daiyu said, "We'll know when we get there." Then she and Baochai went to Daoxiang Village, and they saw that everyone was there.

When Li Wan saw the two of them, he said with a smile: "Before the club starts, there are slippery ones, and the fourth girl is going to ask for a year's leave." Daiyu said with a smile: "It's what the old lady said yesterday. He also asked him to draw some garden pictures, which made him so happy to ask for leave." Tanchun laughed and said, "Don't blame the old lady, it's all Grandma Liu's words." Lin Daiyu laughed quickly: "But, it's all him In a word. He is the grandma of that family, and he is called a mother locust." Everyone laughed.Baochai said with a smile: "The words of the world can be exhausted in Feng girl's mouth. Fortunately, Feng girl can't read and understand, but it's just a joke from the common people. What's more, Xiaoer's narrow mouth is used by other people. Spring and Autumn method , to summarize the vulgar words in the market, delete the complex ones, and add embellishments to make an example. One sentence is one sentence. Here, the three characters of "female locust" show all the scenes of yesterday. Thanks to his thinking, it was quick When everyone heard this, they all laughed and said, "Your comment is no less than two of them." Li Wan said, "I ask you all to discuss how many days to give him. I gave him a month and he thinks it's too little." What do you say?" Daiyu said: "There is not much reason for a year. This garden has only been built for a year, and now it takes two years to paint nature. You have to grind ink, dip your pen, and spread The paper needs to be colored and..." As soon as he said this, everyone knew that he was making fun of Xichun, so they all laughed and asked, "What else?" It will take two years to paint slowly like this!" Everyone clapped their hands and couldn't stop laughing after hearing this.

Baochai laughed and said, "I have to follow this slow drawing again. It's best to leave behind one sentence. Therefore, although those jokes yesterday were ridiculous, they are boring in retrospect. If you think about it carefully, these few words of Luo'er are trivial. But thinking about it makes me feel good. I can’t help laughing.” Xichun said, “It’s all because of Sister Bao’s praise, he’s even more brave, now he’s making fun of me too.”

Daiyu hurriedly pulled him to laugh and said, "Let me ask you, should we only paint this garden, or paint all of us?"

Xichun said: "I originally said that I only painted this garden, but yesterday the old lady said that I only painted the garden to look like a house, and told me to paint even the people, as if I were having fun. I don't know how to do this." It is difficult for me to draw a figure, and it is not easy to dismiss it." Daiyu said: "Characters are easy, but you can't do it." Li Wan said: "You can't speak again, and there is another one here and there. Do you use grass insects? Or you need to decorate them with one or two feathers." Daiyu laughed and said, "I don't want to paint other grass insects, yesterday. If I don't paint the female locusts, it's not a lack of codes!" Everyone laughed again after hearing this. stand up.Daiyu clasped her chest with both hands while smiling, and said: "Draw it quickly, I even have the inscription and postscript. I have a name, and it will be called "Carrying Locusts and Chewing the Picture gt;gt;." Everyone listened He laughed more and more, leaning back and forth.Hearing a sound of "gudong", he fell down for some reason. When he hurriedly looked, it turned out that Xiangyun was lying on the back of the chair. He made a mistake and tilted to the east, even the person and the chair were tilted. Fortunately, there was a plank wall to block them, so they never fell to the ground.When everyone saw it, they couldn't stop laughing.Baoyu rushed to help him up, and Fang gradually stopped laughing.Baoyu and Daiyu wink.Daiyu understood, so she went to the inner room and lifted the burden of the mirror, took a picture, and saw that her temples were a little looser, she hurriedly removed Li Wan's dowry, took out a sip, and sipped it twice in front of the mirror. After tidying up, Fang came out, pointed to Li Wan and said, "This is for you to teach us how to do needlework, but you asked us to laugh out loud." Li Wan laughed and said, "Listen to his tricky words. He led the leader to make trouble and made people laugh, but it's not my fault. I really hate it. I only wish that tomorrow you will have a good mother-in-law and a few wicked sisters-in-law and sister-in-law. Try your The meeting is still so tricky." Lin Daiyu blushed early, pulled Baochai and said, "Let's give him a year's leave." Baochai said: "I have a fair word, listen to it. Ou girl Although I can paint, it is just a few freehand brushstrokes. Now to paint this garden, you have to have a few hills and valleys in your belly to complete the painting. This garden is like a painting, with mountains, rocks, trees, pavilions and houses, distance, distance, and density. Not too much, not too little, just like this. If you just draw on the paper, you will not be able to please it. It depends on the size of the paper, more or less, and what should be added depends on the subject and the guest. Add, what should be subtracted should be reduced, what should be hidden should be hidden, and what should be exposed should be exposed. This is the manuscript, and then carefully consider it to form a pattern. The second thing is that these buildings must be demarcated. If you don't pay attention, the railings are crooked, the pillars are collapsed, the doors and windows are upside down, the steps are out of the way, and even the table is squeezed into the wall, and the flowerpot is placed on the curtain. Laugh. That’s the point. Third, to insert characters, there must be density and height. Clothes and skirts, fingers and footsteps are the most important things. The strokes are not detailed, either swollen hands or legs, stained face Tearing hair is a trivial matter. In my opinion, it is very difficult. Nowadays, one year's leave is too much, and one month's leave is too little, so he was given half a year's leave, and Brother Bao was sent to help him. It's not because If Brother Bao knows how to teach him to paint, it will be even more of a delay, because if there are people who don’t know, or who are difficult to arrange, Brother Bao can take it out and ask the husband who knows how to paint, and it will be easier.” Baoyu listened. , Xianxi said happily: "This is very true. Zhan Ziliang's fine workmanship is excellent, and Cheng Rixing's beauties are unique skills. Let's ask them now." Baochai said: "I said you are busy with nothing, and I said you Just ask and go. Wait until the discussion is made. What kind of painting should I take now?" Baoyu said, "I have Xuelang paper at home, which is big and ink-filled." Baochai sneered: "I said you are useless! Then Xuelang paper writing and painting freehand brushwork, or paintings of Nanzong landscapes that know landscapes, ink, can't be searched. I took this painting, but I didn't support the color, and it was difficult. The painting is not good, and the paper is a pity. I Let me teach you a way. Originally, when building this garden, there was a detailed drawing. Although it was drawn by a craftsman, the direction of the ground is good. You and your wife want to come out, and it is also smaller than the size of the paper. He and Feng girl want a piece of heavy silk , I called my husband, and asked him to follow this pattern to edit and build the manuscript, and just add characters. Even if it matches these green colors and lacquered gold and silver, they have to match them. You also have to use another stove to prepare. Melt glue, glue out, wash pens. You also need a large powder and oil case, covered with felt. You don’t have all the dishes, and you don’t have all the pens, so you have to set them up again.”

Xichun said: "Why did I ever have these paint tools? They are just brush strokes for handwriting. They are just colors. There are only four kinds of ocher, broad flower, gamboge, and rouge. What's more, it's just two coloring pens and it's over." Bao Bao Chai said: "You shouldn't have said it earlier. I still have these things, but you don't need them, and they are for you. Now I will keep them for you. When you need them, I will give you some, and I will give you some." I can only keep painting fans. It would be a pity to paint such a large one. I will make a list for you today, and go with the old lady according to the list. You may not know everything, as I said, brother Bao wrote. " Baoyu has already prepared to write a pen and inkstone. I was afraid that I would not remember clearly, so I wanted to write and remember. Hearing what Baochai said, he happily picked up his pen and listened quietly.Baochai said: "Four No.[-] Paibi, four No.[-] Paibi, four No.[-] Paibi, four large dyed, four medium dyed, four small dyed, ten large southern crab claws, and small crab claws. Ten sticks, ten sticks for men and eyebrows, twenty sticks of large coloring, twenty sticks of small coloring, ten sticks of open face, twenty sticks of wicker, four liang of arrowhead vermilion, four liang of southern ochre, four liang of stone yellow, four liang of stone blue, stone Four liang of green, four liang of Guanhuang, eight liang of Guanghua, four boxes of clam powder, ten pieces of rouge, two hundred pieces of big red flying gold, two hundred pieces of green gold, four liang of Guangyun glue, and four liang of pure alum. The glue is outside, don't worry about them, you just hand over the silk and let them paint it. These colors, let's scavenge and fall, and they are obsessed and used again. It will last you for a lifetime. You need a thin silk Four baskets, four thick silk baskets, four brushes, four large and small mortars, twenty large and thick bowls, ten five-inch thick dishes, twenty three-inch thick white dishes, two air stoves, and casserole Four sizes, two new porcelain pots, four new buckets, four one-foot-long white cloth bags, twenty catties of floating charcoal, one catty of willow charcoal, one wooden box with three drawers, one foot of solid yarn, two liang of ginger, and half of sauce Jin." Daiyu hurriedly said, "One iron pot and one spatula." Baochai said, "What are you doing?" Daiyu laughed and said, "You want ginger and soy sauce, and I'll get you an iron pot. It’s delicious.” Everyone laughed.Baochai laughed and said, "How do you know that? The thick plate cannot be kept from being roasted on the fire. If you don't spread ginger juice and sauce on the bottom and roast it in advance, it will be fried when it is over the fire." Said: "That's how it is." Daiyu looked at the list again, smiled and pulled Tanchun and said quietly: "Look, I want these water tanks and boxes to draw a picture. He must be confused, and put him His dowry list is also written." Tanchun let out an "ah", couldn't stop laughing, and said, "Sister Bao, why don't you twist his mouth? Ask him to arrange your words." Baochai said with a smile: "Don't ask, the dog still has ivory in its mouth!" As he said, he came up and pressed Daiyu on the kang, trying to pinch his face.Daiyu smiled and hurriedly begged: "My dear sister, please forgive me! She is young, she only knows how to talk, and she doesn't know the seriousness. As a sister, teach me. If my sister doesn't forgive me, who can I ask?" Everyone didn't know what was going on. For some reason, they all laughed and said, "It's so pitiful. Even we are soft, so let him go." So fight with him again and let him go.Daiyu laughed and said, "It's my sister after all. If it were me, I would be ungrateful."

Baochai pointed at him with a smile and said, "No wonder the old lady loves you. Everyone loves you for being smart. Today I also blame you for loving you. Come here, and I will brush your hair for you." Sure enough, Daiyu turned around, and Baochai Chai pulls it up with her hands.Baoyu watched from the side, only feeling better, but not regretting that he shouldn't be made to lick his temples, but should be kept, so he asked him to lick it for him.Just as I was thinking about it, I saw Baochai say, "I've finished writing, and I'll go back to the old lady tomorrow. If you have any at home, let's go. If you don't have any, you can buy them with some money. I will help you match them." Baoyu Busy received the list.

Everyone wentssip again.After dinner, I went to pay my respects to Jiamu.Jia Mu was not seriously ill at first, but she was tired and caught some cold. After a day of warmth, she took another dose of medicine and evacuated, and she was fine at the end of the day.I don't know what to say the next day, let's listen to the next chapter.