Dream of the Red Mansion

It is said that Sister Feng was nursing Ping'er, when she suddenly saw all the sisters coming in, she hurriedly let her sit down, and Ping'er poured tea.Sister Feng said with a smile: "Today, everyone is here so neatly. It seems that they were invited by posting." Tanchun laughed and said, "We have two things: one is mine, the other is fourth sister's, and the other is mine." With the words of the old lady." Sister Feng said with a smile: "What's the matter, so important?" Tanchun laughed and said: "We started a poetry club, and the first club was not complete, and everyone was soft-hearted, so it was chaotic. I think you have to be the censor of the prison society, and be stern and selfless. The fourth sister used so many incomplete things to paint the garden, so she went back to the old lady. For the rest, look for it, if you have it, take it out, if you don't have it, ask someone to buy it." Sister Feng laughed and said, "I don't know how to do wet or dry things. Can I eat something?" Tanchun said. "Although you don't know how to do it, you don't want to do it. You are only monitoring if there is a lazy person among us, so you should punish him in any way." Sister Feng said with a smile: "Don't lie to me, I guessed it, where is it?" You are asking me to be the censor of the supervisory club! It is clear that you are asking me to be a copper merchant. What kind of club do you have, you must take turns to be the host. Your monthly money is not enough, so you came up with this method to hold me back Go, so you can ask me for money. But this idea?" Everyone who spoke at the same time laughed.Li Wan said with a smile: "You are really a crystal heart glass person." Sister Feng laughed and said: "You are a big sister-in-law! I left the girls to you to study and learn the rules of needlework. They are not good. You want Persuasion. Now that they start a poetry club, you don’t care how much money they can use? Old lady, it’s just a lady, she was the old Fengjun. Your monthly money of ten taels of silver is twice as much as ours. Old lady, my wife also said that your widow is unemployed, poor, not enough, and there is another kid who has enough to add another ten taels, which is equal to the old lady and wife. I will give you a garden, and everyone will get rent. Year-end distribution In terms of the year, you are on the top again. You girls, there are not ten masters and slaves in total, and the food and clothing are still official. Calculated in a year, there are four or five hundred silver. Now you Take out 200 taels of silver every year to accompany them to be stubborn, how many years can it last? They have each left the cabinet, do you have to pay for it? Now you are afraid of spending money and instigating them to trouble me, I am happy Go eat a dry river and dry sea, I don’t even know about it!” Li Wan said with a smile: “Listen, I said a word, and he went crazy. He said that two carts of rascals with mud legs can make careful calculations. This is because he was entrusted to be born as a young lady in a famous family of poets and books, and he is still like this when he is married. If he was born in a poor and small family, he would be a boy You are a bad-tongued scumbag! You have plotted against everyone in the world! It was a tie yesterday, thanks to you stretching out your hand! Did the yellow soup go into the stomach of a dog? I am so angry that I just need to give Ping My son reported the injustice. After thinking about it for a long time, it was so easy. The good life of the dog with a long tail, but I was afraid that the old lady would not be useful, so I didn't come. After all, I am still angry. You invited me again today. Here Ping'er doesn't need to pick up the shoes, you two should just exchange one for the other." Everyone who said that laughed.

Sister Feng hurriedly laughed and said, "I didn't come to me for poetry or painting, but I came to avenge Ping'er with this face. I don't expect Ping'er to have you as a back-to-back person. If I knew it, there would be ghosts." Take my hand and beat him, and I won't. Miss Ping, come here! I'll apologize for you in front of the grandmas and girls, and bear with me for being immoral after drinking." Then, everyone laughed again.Li Wan asked Ping'er with a smile, "How? I said we must fight for you." Ping'er laughed and said, "However, I can't stand the grandma's teasing." Li Wan said, "Why can't you, I have it. Quickly take the key and ask your master to open the building to find something." Sister Feng smiled and said, "Good sister-in-law, you go back to the garden with them. Just to settle the rice account, the old lady over there sent someone again. Come and call, but I don't know what to say, I have to go there. There are also clothes you mend next year, and you haven't ordered them to make them." Li Wan laughed and said, "I don't care about these things, you just put me I can take a rest after the business is over, lest these girls make trouble with me." Sister Feng hurriedly laughed and said: "Good sister-in-law, give me a little time. You love me the most, why don't you love me today because of Ping'er You still persuaded me that although there are many things to do, you should take care of your body and take some time to rest, but you are killing me today. Besides, it’s okay to miss someone else’s clothes, my sisters If you make a mistake, it is your responsibility. Doesn’t the old lady blame you for not caring about your own business and not saying this one ready-made sentence? I would rather let myself go, and dare not burden you.” Li Wan laughed and said: “Listen, Can you speak well? He can talk! Let me ask you, do you care about this poetry club?" Sister Feng laughed and said, "What are you talking about? , still want to eat here? I will arrive early in the morning, get off the horse and pay homage to the seal. First, I will put down 50 taels of silver for you to slowly become the host of the club. After a few days, I will not write poetry or composition. I am just a layman... Supervision, no. Supervision, if I have money, you still kick me out!" Everyone who said that said laughed again.Sister Feng said: "After a while, I will open a building. All these things will be brought out for you to see. If you want to make them, keep them. If there is something missing, I will ask people to buy them for you according to your list. I will cut out the painting silk. The pattern is not in front of my wife, but it is still with Uncle Zhen over there. I tell you, don’t touch the wall. I sent someone to fetch it, and I also asked people to hand over the silk to the gentlemen. How about it?" Li Wan nodded with a smile and said, "It's hard for you, it's fine if it's like this. If that's the case, let's go home and make trouble with him when he doesn't send it away." Then he took his sister and went Walk.Sister Feng said: "There are no two people in these things. They were all born by Baoyu."

When Li Wan heard this, he turned around and laughed, "It's because of Baoyu that I forgot him. He made a mistake in the first company. We are soft-hearted. How do you punish him?" Sister Feng thought for a while and said: "There is no other way, just ask him to sweep the floor in each of your houses and punish him." Everyone laughed and said, "That's not bad." Just as they were about to go back, a little girl helped him up. Grandma Lai comes in.Sister Feng stood up quickly and said with a smile, "Sit down, auntie." They all congratulated him again.Nanny Lai sat on the edge of the kang, and said with a smile, "I am happy too, and so are the masters. If it weren't for the grace of the masters, where would our joy come from? Yesterday my grandma sent Brother Cai to reward me. My grandson I kowtowed on the door." Li Wan laughed and said, "How sooner or later?" Nanny Lai sighed, "I'm in charge of them, let them go! My son kowtowed to me at home, I didn't Good words, I said: Brother, don’t say that you are an official, you are domineering! You have lived to be 30 years old this year. Hong Fu, I support you, my mother, who can read and write like a son-in-law. She is also a girl, a wife, and her grandma is like holding a phoenix. She has grown so big. How do you know that? How is the word slave written? I only know Blessings, I don’t know your grandfather and your father’s sufferings. After two or three lifetimes, it’s so easy to earn such a thing as you. Since childhood, three disasters and eight disasters have happened, and the money spent has still paid off a silver man like you. Here you come. At the age of 20, I have received the grace of the master again, allowing you to donate a future to me. Do you think how much the hungry and hungry people want? You are a slave, and you have carefully folded your blessings! Now happy After ten years, I don't know how to play tricks. I begged the master and chose him again. Although the county magistrate is small, the matter is big. For the state magistrate of that state, he is the parent of that party. You are not law-abiding and loyal. Serve the country, honor the master, I am afraid that the sky will not allow you."

Sister Li Wanfeng smiled and said: "You worry too much. We can see him. He came in twice in the past few years, but I haven't been here for several years. On his birthday next year, I saw his name. That's all. I kowtowed to the old lady and the lady. In the courtyard of the old lady, I saw him wearing the clothes of a new official again. His hair looked mighty and he was fatter than before. Now that he got an official, he should You are happy, but you are worried about these things! He is not good, and his father, you just take care of yourself. When you are free, come in with a sedan chair, fight with the old lady for a day, and talk for a day, who cares? I have wronged you. When you go home, you are usually in a building or hall. Whoever disrespects you is naturally like an old lord." Ping'er poured tea, and Nanny Lai hurriedly stood up to pick it up, and said with a smile, "Young lady, no matter what you call That child just fell over, and tortured me again." As he said, while drinking tea, he said: "Grandma doesn't know. These children must be strictly controlled. Forgive me for being so strict, they even took the time to make trouble. It makes adults worry. Those who know say that the children are naughty, but those who don’t know say that they bully others with their wealth and power, and even the master’s reputation is not good. I can’t help it. It's better." Yin pointed to Baoyu again and said, "I'm not afraid that you will dislike me. Now the master just keeps you in control, and the old lady protects you. When the master was beaten by your grandfather when he was young, no one saw it. When the master was young, how could he ever be like You are so fearless now. There is also the old man, although he is naughty, he is not like you. He also beats you every day. There is also the grandfather of your brother Zhen in the East Mansion, that is the fire The oily temper, I was annoyed when I said, what kind of son is actually a thief! Now I see it with my eyes and listen to it with my ears, that Uncle Zhen's management of his son is just like the rules of his ancestors back then, but he managed it until three It doesn't matter. He doesn't care about himself, why are these brothers and nephews not afraid of him? You understand in your heart, you like me to say it, but you don't understand, you feel embarrassed in your mouth, and you don't know how to scold me in your heart." As he was speaking, I saw everyone from Lai's family coming, and then from Zhou Rui's family and Zhang Cai's family to work.Sister Feng laughed and said, "The daughter-in-law is here to pick up the mother-in-law."

Lai said with a smile: "It's not to pick him up, but to ask grandma and girls whether they give you face or not?" After hearing this, Nanny Lai laughed and said, "But I'm confused. Let's not talk about serious things, let's say Chen Guzi is rotten sesame seeds." Because our boy was elected, and all the relatives and friends want to congratulate him, it is necessary to have a wine at home. I think, if you have a day of wine, it’s not right to invite this or that. After thinking about it again, please My master, Hong Fu, gave up his family for such an unexpected honor, and I am willing. So I ordered him to serve wine for three days: on the first day, put a few tables of wine in our dilapidated garden, a play, please the old lady Ladies and gentlemen, grandma and girls go to relax for a day, put on a play in the hall outside, set up a few tables of wine, invite the gentlemen, the gentlemen go to add credit, invite relatives and friends on the second day, and bring our two houses together on the third day Please invite your companion. The three days of excitement are also a glorious event thanks to the blessing of the master." Sister Li Wanfeng laughed and said: "How sooner or later? We must go, I am afraid that the old lady will go if she is happy. Can't decide." Lai everyone hurriedly said: "I chose the fourteenth day, just look at our grandma's old face." Sister Feng smiled and said: "No one else knows, but I will definitely go. First of all, I don't have a congratulatory gift. Yes, I don’t know how to give rewards. Don’t make jokes when you leave after eating.” Everyone laughed and said, “Grandma said what? Grandma wants to reward us, and I’ll give us [-] to [-] silver.” Nanny Lai laughed. "I just went to invite the old lady, and the old lady also said to go, but my face is not bad." After speaking, Fang got up and left. When he saw Zhou Rui's family, he remembered something, and said: " But there is another question to ask grandma, what did my sister-in-law’s son do wrong this week, why don’t you just kick him out?” Sister Feng laughed and said, “It’s exactly what I want to tell your daughter-in-law, and I have forgotten many things. Sister-in-law Lai will go back Tell you, old man, that the two houses are not allowed to take him in, so let him go alone." Lai had no choice but to agree.

Zhou Rui's family hurriedly knelt down and begged.Nanny Lai hurriedly said: "What's the matter? Tell me to comment." Sister Feng said: "It was my birthday the day before yesterday, and I hadn't had any wine in it. He got drunk first. The old lady sent a gift, and he didn't say he was there. He was sitting upside down and swearing at people outside, but he didn't bring in the gifts. When two women came in, he took the little ones in and carried them in. The little ones were fine, the box he was holding fell out of his hand, and he spilled it all. Yard steamed buns. People went, sent Caiming to talk about him, but he scolded Caiming. Such a lawless and ignorant kid, what are you doing if you don’t get kicked out!" Lai Nanny laughed: "What should I do? Because of this. Grandma listened to me: Is he right? Beating him, scolding him, making him correct his mistakes, and driving him away are absolutely impossible. He is no better than the son of our family. He is now the wife's companion. Grandma only cares Throwing him away, the wife's face is not good. According to me, grandma taught him a few tricks, as a warning to keep it next time. Don't look at his mother, but also look at his wife." When Sister Feng heard about it, she told Lai everyone Said: "In this case, beat him with forty sticks, and he will not be allowed to drink in the future." Lai everyone agreed.Zhou Rui's family kowtowed, and they wanted to kowtow to Lai Mama again, Lai everyone pulled Fang.Then the three of them went, and Li Wan and others came back to the garden.At the end of the day, as expected, Sister Feng ordered people to find a lot of old painting utensils and send them to the garden.Baochai and others chose once, and only half of the various things were available, so they opened another list for the other half, and went to buy them with Sister Feng as usual, without going into details.

One day, the silk was laid outside, and the manuscript came in.Baoyu helps Xichun here every day.Tanchun, Li Wan, Yingchun, Baochai, etc. also often sit there, watching paintings and meeting each other.Seeing that the weather was cool and the nights were getting longer, Baochai went to her mother's room to discuss getting some needles and threads.During the day, I went to Mrs. Wang's place at Jiamu's place to wait twice, and I couldn't help but sit and gossip with Chengse for half an hour, and I also spent time gossiping at the sisters' place in the garden, so I don't have much free time during the day, and the female workers under the lamp must come to three every night Sleep more easily.Every year after the vernal equinox and autumnal equinox, Daiyu must suffer from coughing. This autumn, she met Jia Mu again and was very happy. She went out for two more trips, which was exhausting. Recently, she started coughing again and felt heavier than usual, so she never went out. It will only be raised in its own room.Sometimes when I'm bored, I hope a sister will gossip to distract me. When Baochai and others come to visit him, I get tired of not being able to say a few words.Everyone understands that he is sick, and his body is usually delicate, so he can't bear some grievances, so he doesn't treat him well, and he is rude, and they don't criticize him harshly.

Baochai came to visit him this day because he was talking about the disease.Baochai said: "Although the imperial physicians here are all good, it's just that their medicine doesn't work if you take them. Why don't you invite another wise person to have a look? Wouldn't it be better if they are cured? There is a spring every year." One summer, neither old nor young, what is it? It's not a common practice." Daiyu said: "It's useless. I know I can't get well after being sick like this. Let alone illness, I only talk about good days. You can know how to shape the scene." Baochai nodded and said: "But that's exactly what the ancients said. Those who eat grains live, and what you eat on a daily basis can't nourish your spirit and blood. It's not a good thing." Daiyu sighed Said: "Death and life are fate, wealth and honor are in the sky, and it is not something human can do. This year, it seems to be a little heavier than before." While speaking, he coughed two or three times.Baochai said: "Yesterday I saw in your prescription that there was too much ginseng and cinnamon. Although it is good for nourishing qi and nourishing the spirit, it should not be too hot. According to me, the first thing is to calm the liver and strengthen the stomach. Once the anger is calm, it cannot be overcome." Soil, stomach qi is free of disease, and diet can support people. Get up early every day, take one or two high-quality bird’s nests, five qian for rock sugar, and cook porridge with silver pickles. If you get used to it, it is better than medicine, and it is the most nourishing. It nourishes yin and nourishes qi." Daiyu sighed, "it's true that you treat people well on a daily basis, but I'm the most caring person, and I only think that you hide evil in your heart. The other day you said that reading miscellaneous books is not good, and you persuaded me Thank you so much for those kind words. I was wrong in the past, and I am really wrong now. After careful calculation, my mother passed away early, and I have no sisters or brothers. I am 15 years older, and there is no one like you the day before yesterday Teach me what you said. I can’t complain that Yun girl said hello. I saw him praise you in the past, but I didn’t use it. I passed by myself yesterday, and then I found out. I don't mind, but I persuaded me with those words. I know I was mistaken. If I didn't see it from the day before yesterday, I wouldn't tell you what I said today. You just told me to eat bird's nest porridge. Although bird's nest is easy to get, it's just because I My body is not good, I have this disease every year, and there is no important place for f to go. Please doctor, boil medicine, ginseng and cinnamon, the world has been turned upside down, and now I have a new article to cook bird’s nest porridge, old lady, Wife, Sister Feng, these three people have nothing to say, those women and girls down there don't think I'm too much trouble. Look at these people here, because they see the old lady hurt Baoyu and girl Feng too much, they still don't care about it. Dandan, you talk behind your back, let alone me? Besides, I am not their serious master here. I came here with no one to rely on, and they already dislike me. Now I don’t know how to advance or retreat, why bother Tell them to curse me?" Baochai said, "So, I'm just like you."

Daiyu said: "How do you compare to me? You have a mother and an elder brother. You also have land for buying and selling here, and you still have a house and land at home. You are just a relative, and you live here for nothing. Everyone is big and small. Things don't touch them, and I leave as soon as I want. I have nothing, food and clothing, scraps and papers, all of which are the same as the girls in their family. Baochai said with a smile, "I won't spend too much on a dowry in the future, and I don't have to worry about it now." Daiyu blushed when she heard this, and said with a smile, "I think you are a serious person. Tell you the troubles in your heart, but you make fun of me instead." Baochai laughed and said, "Although it's a joke, it's also the truth. Don't worry, I'll be here for a day, and I'll spend the day with you. You If you have any grievances and troubles, just tell me, I can solve them, and I will solve them for you for a day. Although I have an older brother, you also know that there is only a mother who is slightly stronger than you. We are also regarded as sympathetic. You are also Understand people, why bother. Sima Niu's sigh? You just said that it is better to save one thing than to do more. I will go home tomorrow and tell my mother. I am afraid we still have some at home. I will give you a few taels and call the girls every day. It's cheap, and it doesn't surprise the teachers." Daiyu laughed quickly and said, "It's rare for you to be so passionate." Baochai said, "What do you put in your mouth! I only worry about me. It's just that everyone is out of touch. I'm afraid you're bored, so I'll go." Daiyu said, "Come and talk to me in the evening." Baochai agreed and went, no problem.

Here Daiyu drank two mouthfuls of gruel, but was still lying on the bed, not thinking that the sky would change before the sun set, and it would start to rain.Qiulin pulsed, cloudy and sunny, and the dusk was gradually getting darker, and the raindrops on the bamboo tips made me feel even more desolate.Knowing that Baochai could not come, she casually picked up a book under the lamp, but it turned out to be lt;lt;Miscellaneous manuscripts of Yuefu gt;gt; ;gt; and other words.Daiyu didn't feel something in her heart, and she couldn't help posting it in the chapters and sentences, so she formed a poem of lt; lt; Dai Bie Li gt; gt; ;lt;Autumn window wind and rain evening gt;gt;.The words say: Autumn flowers are bleak, autumn grass is yellow, and autumn lights are long in autumn.

I feel that the autumn window is endless, and the wind and rain can help the desolation!

How fast does the autumn wind and rain come!The autumn window is shocked and the autumn dream is green.

I can't bear to sleep in the autumn love, and move tears to the autumn screen.

Tears and candles shaking *casting tears*, sorrow and hatred move separation.

Whose autumn courtyard has no wind to enter?Where is the autumn window without the sound of rain?

Luo Qun was helpless with the force of the autumn wind, and the sound of residual leakage urged the urgent autumn rain.

Lianxiao's pulse is whizzing again, and it seems to be weeping with people in front of the lamp.

The small courtyard of cold smoke turns to depression, and the empty windows of the bamboo are dripping when they are sparse.

I don't know when the wind and rain will end, and the window screens have been wet with tears.

After singing and putting down the pen, just to go to bed, the maid reported, "Second Master Bao is here." Before she could finish her sentence, she saw Baoyu wearing a big straw hat on her head and a coir raincoat on her body.Daiyu couldn't help laughing: "The fisherman from there!" Baoyu hurriedly asked: "Is it better today? Have you taken any medicine? How much food have you eaten today?" He hurriedly raised the lamp with one hand, covered the light with the other, took a photo on Daiyu's face, squinted his eyes for a closer look, and said with a smile, "You look better today." Wearing only a half-worn red silk short jacket, tied with a green sweat scarf, oil-green silk trousers with floral patterns exposed under the knees, cotton gauze socks embroidered with gold, and butterfly and flower shoes.Daiyu asked: "The top is afraid of rain, but the shoes and socks on the bottom are not afraid of rain? They are also clean." Baoyu laughed and said, "I have a complete set. I have a pair of Tang clogs, which I just wore and took off on the eaves of the corridor." It's on." Daiyu saw that the coir raincoat and bamboo hat were not common ones sold in the market, they were very delicate and light, so she said, "What kind of straw is it made of? It's strange that you don't look like a hedgehog when you wear it." Baoyu said: "These three are all It’s a gift from King Beijing. It’s the same thing at home when it’s raining when he’s free. If you like this, I’ll make a set for you too. Nothing else, but this bamboo hat is interesting, and it’s alive. The one on top It’s alive. When it snows in winter, when you put on a hat, you pull out the bamboo letter and remove the hat, leaving only this circle. When it snows, both men and women wear it. I’ll give you one, and it’s snowing in winter. " Daiyu laughed and said, "I don't want him. Put on that, and become a fisherman in paintings and plays." And when he said it, he remembered that he hadn't thought about it, and it was connected with Baoyu's words just now. , Regret too late, blushed with shame, and lay down on the table coughing.

But Baoyu didn't pay attention. Seeing the poem on the case, he picked it up to read it again, and couldn't help but applaud.After hearing this, Daiyu got up and took it in her hand, and burned it on the lamp.Baoyu said with a smile, "I'm familiar with it, and it's okay to burn it." Daiyu said, "I'm much better too. Thank you for coming to see me several times a day. It's raining again. It's late at night, and I'm also If you want to rest, please go back and come back tomorrow." Baoyu heard that he turned back and took out a gold watch the size of a walnut from his bosom, and after a look, the needle pointed to the period between the end of Xu and the beginning of Hai. , Busy again, and said: "It's time to rest, but you have been disturbed for a long time." Then, he went out in a cape and a hat, turned over and asked: "What do you want to eat, tell me, I understand Going back to the old lady early in the morning, isn't it clearer than the old ladies?" Daiyu smiled and said, "When I think about it at night, I will get up early tomorrow and tell you. You hear the rain is getting tighter, go quickly. Is there anyone following? " Two women agreed: "Someone is lighting a lantern with an umbrella outside." Daiyu laughed and said, "Light a lantern this day?" When Yu heard about it, she turned back and took down a glass hydrangea lamp from the bookshelf. She ordered a small wax and handed it to Baoyu, saying, "This one is brighter than that one. It's just lit in the rain." Baoyu said: "I also have one like this. I was afraid that they would slip and break it, so I didn't order it." Daiyu said, "It's worth the money if it falls, but it's worth it if it falls. This one is light and bright. It was originally held by myself in the rain. Wouldn’t it be nice to hold this in your own hand? I’ll bring it back tomorrow. Even if I lose my hand, it’s limited. Why did it suddenly happen again? Get angry with Tibetan pearls!" Baoyu heard about it, and quickly took it over, the two women in front were holding umbrellas and carrying bright tile lamps, and the two little maidservants behind were holding umbrellas.Baoyu handed the lamp to a little girl to hold it. Baoyu supported his shoulder and went all the way.

There was a woman from Hengwuyuan, who also held an umbrella and carried a lamp, and brought a large package of high-quality bird's nest, and a package of cleansing powder, plum slices, snowflakes and foreign sugar.Said: "It's better than buying it. The girl said: Eat it first, and then bring it back." Daiyu said: "Go back and talk about it. Don't worry." He ordered him to sit outside and have tea.The mother-in-law smiled and said, "I don't want to eat tea anymore. I have other things to do." Daiyu smiled and said, "I know you are busy too. If it's cold today and the night is long, it's time for a night game and two big bets." "The old lady laughed and said, "I'll tell you the truth, I've had a lot of money this year. Anyway, there are a few people who go to the night every night. , and to relieve boredom. Today is my boss again, and now that the gate of the garden is closed, it is time to play." Daiyu laughed and said, "It's hard for you. I missed your fortune and sent it in the rain." He spent a few hundred dollars and bought some wine to avoid the rain.The woman said with a smile, "It's costing the girl to enjoy the wine again." Then, she kowtowed, took the money outside, and took an umbrella to go.

Zijuan put away the bird's nest, moved the lamp and lowered the curtain, and waited for Daiyu to sleep.Daiyu felt grateful for Baochai on her pillow. For a while, she envied him for having a mother and brother.He heard the patter of rain on the scorched leaves of the bamboo shoots outside the window, and the coldness pierced through the curtain, and tears fell again unconsciously.It wasn't until late in the fourth watch that Fang gradually fell asleep.Nothing for now.To know the end -