Dream of the Red Mansion

It is said that when Baoyu saw that Qingwen had finished mending the sparrow fur, she had exhausted all her strength, so she hurriedly ordered the little girl to beat him for him, and beat each other for a while to rest.There was no time for a meal, it was already bright, and he didn't go out, so he just called Doctor Kuaichuan.Immediately, Doctor Wang came, checked the pulse, and said doubtfully, "I got better yesterday, how can I feel weak and shrunk today, dare I eat too much food? Otherwise, I was exhausted. The exogenous pathogenesis has been cleared, this sweat It's no small thing to lose care afterward." As he said, he went out and came in with a prescription.When Baoyu looked at it, he had already subtracted all the medicines for dispersing and expelling evil spirits, and added Poria cocos, rehmannia glutinosa, angelica and other medicines for nourishing the spirit and blood.Baoyu hurriedly ordered people to fry him, and sighed, "What's wrong with this! If there is any good or bad, it's all my sin." Qingwen slept on the pillow and said, "Good lord! Go do what you want, and you will have to do it there. Consumption." Baoyu had no choice but to go.In the second half of the day, he said he was not feeling well and came back.Although Qingwen's disease is serious, fortunately he is a person who does not use his strength in his past habits, and he is accustomed to eating a light diet, so he is not hurt when he is hungry and full.The customs and secret methods in this Jia's house, no matter whether they are up or down, they only have a slight cold and cough, and they always focus on purifying hunger, and taking medicine for recuperation.Therefore, when I was ill the day before yesterday, I was hungry for two or three days, and took medicine carefully. Now I have worked a little bit, and I have doubled my cultivation for a few days, and then I gradually recovered.Recently, the sisters in the garden all ate in their rooms, and it was convenient to cook and eat. Baoyu can change his own method and ask for soup or soup, so I don't need to go into details.

After the Xiren sent her mother to the funeral, she had already returned, and Sheyue went back to Baoyu one by one, telling Ping'er about Song's mother's fall, and Qingwen's expulsion.Xiren didn't say anything, only that he was too hasty.Just because Li Wan also catches a cold because of the weather, and Mrs. Xing is suffering from fire eyes again, the Spring Festival and Xiuyan all go to serve medicine day and night. Aunt Li's younger brother takes Aunt Li and Li Wen and Li Qi's house to live for a few days. Baoyu sees Xiren and often misses her mother. With sadness, Qingwen is still not healed: therefore, the poetry clubs were empty every day because no one was busy.

It's the twelfth lunar month now, and the year is approaching. Mrs. Wang and Sister Feng are managing the year.Wang Ziteng was promoted to the capital inspectorate of nine provinces, and Jia Yucun was appointed as the chief minister, and he was an assistant military counselor and government affairs counselor.

Let's talk about Jia Zhen's ancestral hall was opened, and people cleaned it, packed up the offering vessels, invited the gods, and cleaned the upper room in order to prepare the images of the remaining offerings.At this time, inside and outside Rongning Second Mansion, everyone is busy.This day, Youshi in Ningfu was getting up and Jia Rong's wife was getting up to send needlework gifts to Jia Mu. Just as the girl came in with a tea tray to hold the New Year's Eve, she said, "Xing'er went back to grandma, and the previous bag was broken." The gold is 150, three, two, six, seven cents, and the fineness of the inside varies, and a total of 220 coins have been dumped." He said and handed it up.Youshi looked at it, and saw that there were plum blossoms, begonias, pen ingots, and Babaolianchun.You Shi ordered: "Put this away and tell him to hand in the silver key quickly." The servant girl agreed to go.

When Jia Zhen came in for dinner, Jia Rong's wife avoided him.Jia Zhen asked You Shi, "Have we received the reward for the spring festival?" You Shi said, "I sent Rong'er to prison today." , how much is the grace of the emperor. It was closed early, and the old lady over there saw it, and made an offering from the ancestors. The emperor received the grace of the emperor, and the blessing of the ancestors. Even if we use [-] silver for the ancestors, After all, it’s not as good as this one, which is decent and blessed. Except for one or two families like ours, if those hereditary poor officials’ families don’t rely on this money, how can they make offerings for the New Year? The real emperor’s kindness is so great. Thoughtful." You Shi said, "That's exactly what I said." The two were talking, when someone replied, "My brother is here."Jia Zhen ordered him to come in.I saw Jia Rong coming in with a small yellow cloth bag.Jia Zhen said, "Why did you go to this day?" Jia Rong replied with a smile, "I'm not at the Ministry of Rites today, and I'm allocating it to the Guanglu Temple treasury. I got it because I went to Guanglu Temple again. Guanglu Temple The officials all said hello to my father. I haven’t seen you for a long time, but I miss you so much.” Jia Zhen smiled and said, “They miss me. It’s the end of the year again, and they miss my things or my opera wine. It is." On the one hand, he looked at the yellow cloth pocket, which was stamped with four big characters "Emperor En Yongxi", and on the other side was the stamp of the priest of the Ministry of Rites, and wrote a line of small characters, which said "Ningguo Gong Jia Yan Rongguo Gong Jiayuan bestowed a gift of eternal spring offering a total of two points, a net discount of several taels of silver, received by Jia Rong, the alternate bodyguard of the Long Jinwei, on a certain day, month and day, and received by someone in the temple." There is a red pen monogram below.

After eating and washing, Jia Zhen changed her boots and hats, and ordered Jia Rong to follow her with the silver. She went back to Mrs. Jia Muwang, and then to Mrs. Jia Shexing, before going home and taking out the silver. He ordered the pockets to be burned in the furnace of the ancestral hall.He also ordered Jia Rong to say, "Go and ask your second aunt, Lian, if you have planned a day to invite New Year's wine in the first month. If it is planned, ask the study to clearly open the list. When we invite again, we can't repeat the crime. Old I didn’t pay attention to several families in the year, not to mention that we didn’t pay attention, but it’s like the two houses have agreed to give away the false love for fear of trouble.” Jia Rong hurriedly agreed.All of a sudden, the date list for inviting people to eat New Year's wine came.Jia Zhen saw it, and ordered Lai Sheng to see it. Please don't worry about the above days.Because in the hall, I watched the boys lift the screen and wipe a few cases of gold and silver offerings.I saw the young man holding a letter and an account in his hand, and said, "Wuzhuangtou from Heishan village is here." Jia Zhen said, "This old beheaded man just came today." Saying that, Jia Rong After receiving the letter and accounts, she hurriedly unfolded them. Jia Zhen held her hands behind her back and looked at the red letter in Jia Rong's hand. Miss Jin'an. The New Year is full of joy and prosperity, prosperity and safety, promotion and salary, and everything goes well." Jia Zhen smiled and said: "The Zhuang family has something interesting." Jia Rong also hurriedly laughed and said: "Don't look at the grammar, just take auspiciousness. When I was busy opening the list, I saw it said: "Thirty big deer, fifty roe deer, fifty roe deer, twenty Siamese pigs, twenty soup pigs, twenty dragon pigs, and wild boars. Twenty, twenty domestic pigs, twenty wild sheep, twenty blue sheep, twenty domestic soup sheep, twenty domestic sheep, two sturgeons, two hundred catties of miscellaneous fish, live Two hundred chickens, ducks, and geese each, two hundred chickens, two hundred ducks, and two hundred geese, two hundred pairs of pheasants, and two hundred pairs of rabbits each, twenty pairs of bear paws, twenty catties of deer tendons, fifty catties of sea cucumbers, and fifty strips of deer tongue , 500 pieces of beef tongue, [-] catties of dried razor clam, [-] bags each of hazelnut, pine, peach, and apricot, [-] pairs of large prawns, [-] catties of dried shrimp, [-] catties of fine silver frost charcoal, and [-] catties of medium Jin, [-] catties of charcoal, two stones of royal rouge rice, fifty dendrobiums of green glutinous rice, fifty dendrobiums of white glutinous rice, fifty dendrobiums of japonica rice, fifty dendrobiums of variegated rice, one thousand stones of regular rice, each of various colors A cart of dried vegetables, grain for takeaway, a total of [-] taels of silver for all kinds of livestock. Outer sect filial piety to brothers and sisters: two pairs of live deer, four pairs of live white rabbits, four pairs of live black rabbits, two pairs of live golden pheasants Yes, two pairs of Western ducks."

Jia Zhen ordered him to be brought in.For a while, Wu Jinxiao came in and kowtowed in the courtyard to pay his respects.Jia Zhen ordered someone to pull him up, and said with a smile, "You're still tough." Wu Jinxiao replied with a smile, "Thanks to my lord, I can still walk." Jia Zhen said, "Your son is growing up, so he should be told to go. Just go." Wu Jinxiao said with a smile: "I'll tell you the truth, the little ones are used to walking, and if they don't come, they will feel bored. Aren't they all willing to come and see the world at the feet of the emperor? If you accidentally miss it, you can rest assured in a few years." Jia Zhen said: "How long have you been away?" Wu Jin said filially: "If you go back to the master, it's snowing hard this year, and the snow outside is four or five feet deep. The day before yesterday, it suddenly warmed up. As soon as I changed, the road was very difficult to walk, and I was delayed for a few days. Although I walked for a month and two days, because the days were limited, I was afraid that my father would be anxious, so I didn't come in a hurry." Jia Zhen said: "I said, why today I just came here. I just read the list, this year you old bastard is coming to the ring again."

Wu Jinxiao hurriedly took two steps forward, and replied: "Master Hui said that this year's harvest is really not good. It started to rain in March, and continued until August, and there was no sunny day for five consecutive days. In September A hailstorm the size of a bowl, covering an area of ​​nearly 5000 miles, including people, houses and livestock food, injured tens of thousands of people, that's why it happened. Small people don't dare to lie." Jia Zhen frowned and said: "I've decided that you have at least 100 taels of silver. What can you do? Now you only have eight or nine Zhuangzi left. This year, there are two droughts and floods, and you are fighting in the arena again. It's really a good time to say goodbye to the New Year. "Wu Jin said filially: "This place is not bad! My brother is only more than 3000 miles away from me, who knows how far away it is. He is now in charge of the eight farms in the mansion, which is more than here. Several times, this year there are only these things, but there are two or three thousand taels of silver more, and there will be famine." Jia Zhen said: "Exactly, I can do it here. There is no other major business, but it is just a year's expense. Spend some money. I will save some when I am wronged. Besides, I will be thick-skinned when I send someone away every year. But the savings will be over. It is not as good as that mansion, which has added a lot of money in the past few years. It must be spent, but I don’t want to add some money to the property. I have lost a lot in the past two years, if I don’t want it with you, who can I go to!” Wu Jinxiao said with a smile: “Although there are more things in the mansion now , going and coming, the empress and the long live Lord will reward you!"

After hearing this, Jia Zhen smiled at Jia Rong and said, "Listen, are his words ridiculous?" Jia Rong waited hurriedly laughed and said, "You people on the mountain col and the seaside, how do you know this truth? Don't you think the emperor put the emperor It won’t work if we give us the treasury! Even if he has this heart in his heart, he can’t make the decision. There is no reason not to reward, arriving on time to the festival is just some colorful satin antiques. Even if you reward silver, it is only 100 taels of gold. Worth 1000 taels of silver, what is enough for one year? In the past two years or so, you will not pay a few thousand silver more! In the first year, you can even build a garden, you can count how much you spent on that bet, and you will know I'm afraid I'll be poor if I visit my relatives again in two years." Jia Zhen laughed and said, "So they are honest people who don't know what's going on in the open. Phellodendron wood is used as a chime hammer, which is decent on the outside but bitter on the inside. " Jia Rong laughed again and said to Jia Zhen: "Sure enough, the mansion is poor. A while ago, I heard Miss Feng and Yuanyang secretly discussing about stealing the old lady's things for money." Jia Zhen laughed and said, "That's another You, Miss Feng, are so poor there. He must have seen that there are too many ways to go, and he has lost a lot of money. He doesn't know which item to save money. First, let people know that he is so poor. But I have a calculation in my heart, it’s not like this.” After speaking, he ordered someone to take Wu Jinxiao out to treat him well, no problem.

Here Jia Zhen ordered all the talents and things to be reserved for the ancestors, took some of them, and ordered Jia Rong to send them to Rongfu.Then I kept what I used at home, and the rest sent out other cases, piled them up under the platform one by one, and ordered people to call the nephews and nephews of the family to them.Then Rongguo Mansion also sent a lot of offerings to the ancestors and Jia Zhen's things.Jia Zhen saw that the sacrificial utensils had been packed, she was wearing shoes and a lynx cat fur, and ordered someone to spread a big wolf fur mattress on the stone rock under the pillar of the hall in the sun. .Seeing that Jia Qin also came to collect the things, Jia Zhen called him over and said, "You came here for nothing? Who told you to come?" Jia Qin lowered his hand and said, "I heard that the uncle asked us to get the things here. I didn't wait." When people go, they come." Jia Zhen said: "I originally gave this thing to your idle little uncles and brothers. I gave it to you when you were idle for two years. Now you are here The mansion is in charge of affairs, and the family temple is in charge of monks and Taoists. You have an exception in January. These monks’ money is all passed through your hands. You come to get this, too greedy! You can see for yourself , you dress like a man with money in his hands? You said you didn’t make any profit, so what’s the matter now? It doesn’t look like it before.” Jia Qin said: “My family used to have a large population, and the expenses were high.”

Jia Zhen sneered and said, "You are still ignoring me. Forgive me for not knowing what you did in the family temple. You will naturally be a master when you get there, and no one dares to disobey you. You have money in your hand again, so leave We are far away, so you will become the king, recruit bandits to gamble money every night, and raise wives and children. With the image of Zihua at this moment, you still dare to bring things? If you can’t get things, you can take a pack of water sticks. Forget it. After the new year, I will tell your second uncle Lian that you will come back in exchange." Jia Qin blushed and dared not agree.The person replied: "Water Lord of Beifu sent the word couplet, and the purse is here." Jia Zhen heard that she hurriedly ordered Jia Rong to go out for entertainment, "Just say that I am not at home." Jia Rong went, and here Jia Zhen watched after receiving the things. , Go back to the room and have dinner with You Shi, and have nothing to say all night.By the next day, I was even busier than before, so I don't need to elaborate.

It's already the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month, and all kinds of colors are available. The door gods have been changed in both houses, couplets, listings, new peach charms, and a new look.From the main gate, Yimen, hall, warm pavilion, inner hall, inner three gates, inner Yimen and inner plug gates to the main hall of Ningguo Mansion, the main entrance is wide open all the way, and the steps on both sides are brightly illuminated with vermilion, like two golden dragons. .The next day, those who were appointed by Jia's mother all wore court clothes according to their grades. First, they sat in a sedan chair for eight people and led the people into the palace to congratulate them.All the disciples who did not follow into the dynasty all lined up in front of the gate of Ningfu to wait on the prince, and then led them into the ancestral hall.Let's say it's the first time for Baoqin to understand this ancestral hall carefully. It turns out that there is another courtyard on the west side of Ningfu. There are five gates inside the black oil fence. "Book of Yan Sheng Gong Kong Jizong".There is a long couplet on both sides, which reads:

The heart is full of blood, Zhao's surname is Lai Baoyu's kindness,

Fame and fame run through the sky, and EMI generations look up to the prosperity of steaming and tasting.It is also written by Shenggong.Entering the courtyard, there is a white stone path, with green pines and cypresses on both sides.There are green and green bronze Ding Yi and other utensils on the platform.There is a Kowloon gold plaque hanging in front of Baosha, which reads: "Xinghui Fuzhu".It is the imperial pen of the first emperor.A couplet on both sides reads:

The meritorious deeds are bright and the sun and the moon are bright, and the fame and fame continue to reach the children and grandchildren.It is also a royal pen.In front of the five main halls, there is a green plaque filled with trouble dragons, which reads: "Careful in the end and chasing the distance".A couplet next to it reads:

His descendants have inherited Fude, and Li Shu has read Rongning to this day.All are imperial pens.The incense candles inside are brilliant, and the brocade curtain is embroidered. Although the gods and masters are listed, they can't be seen clearly.I saw that the people of Jia's mansion were divided into Zhaomu and established: Jia Jing as the chief priest, Jia Amnesty as the accompanying sacrifice, Jia Zhen as the noble, Jia Lian and Jia Cong as the silk, Baoyu as the incense holder, Jiachang and Jia Ling as the blanket for worship, and guarding the burning pond.Music in Tsing Yi, three tributes to the lord, the end of worship, the burning of silk and libations, the end of the ceremony, the end of the music, and withdrawal.The crowd followed Jia Mu to the main hall. In front of the film, a brocade curtain was hung high, a color screen was set up to protect it, and incense candles were brilliant.Hanging in the middle of it are the portraits of Ning Rong's second ancestors, all of which are jade with python waists; on both sides there are several shafts of ancestors' remains.Jia Yun and Jia Zhi stood in sequence from Neiyi Gate to the corridor of the main hall.Outside the threshold are Jia Jing and Jia Amnesty, and inside the threshold are the female relatives.All the family members and servants are outside the Yimen.Every dish arrived and passed to Yimen, Jia Yun and Jia Zhi took it, and passed it to Jia Jing on the steps one by one.Jia Rong is the grandson of the head of the house, and he is the only one with his wife in the sill.Every Jia worshiped the dish and passed it on to Jia Rong. Jia Rong passed it on to his wife, and then to Feng Sister You's family.Mrs. Wang passed it on to Jiamu, who held it on the table.Mrs. Xing stood on the west side of the altar, facing east, and she made offerings with Jia's mother.Until the dishes, rice, soup, wine and tea were passed on, Jia Rongfang withdrew from the lower rank and was placed at the top of Jia Qin's rank.Those who follow the name of the text, Jia Jing is the head, the next is the jade, Jia Zhen is the head, and the Caotou is the head, Jia Rong is the head, left Zhao right Mu, male east and female west, when Jia Mu burns incense and bows down, All the people knelt down together and filled the five halls, the three huts, the inner and outer verandahs, and the upper and lower steps of the two danges, where there were clusters of flowers and no gaps.Crows and sparrows are unknown, only the clanging and jingling, the slight swaying of golden bells and jade, and the rustling of kneeling boots and shoes.When the ceremony was over, Jia Jing, Jia Amnesty and others hurriedly withdrew, and went to Rongfu to wait and salute with Jia's mother.

The floor of You's upper room has long been covered with red felt, and there is a big gilded enamel brazier along the elephant-nosed three-legged carp. The front kang is covered with new scarlet felt, and there is a backrest pillow with big red embroidered clouds and dragons holding longevity. There is a burden of black fox fur on it, and a mattress made of big white fox fur, and Jia Mu is invited to sit up.There are leather mattresses on both sides, so that two or three sisters-in-law of Jiamu's generation can sit.After the horizontal head row was inserted here, a leather mattress was also spread on the small kang, and Mrs. Xing waited to sit.On the twelve carved lacquer chairs facing each other on both sides of the ground, there are all squirrel chairs of the same color with small mattresses, and there is a large copper foot stove under each chair for Baoqin and other sisters to sit on.Youshi used tea trays to hold tea with Jia Mu, Rong's wife held tea with all the old grandmothers, and then Youshi held tea with Mrs. Xing, and Rong's wife held tea with all the sisters.Sister Feng, Li Wan, etc. are only waiting on the ground.After tea, Mrs. Xing and others got up first to serve Jia Mu.Jia Mu had tea and chatted with her grandmother for two or three words, and then she ordered to watch the sedan chair.Sister Feng hurried up to pull it up.You Shi smiled back and said: "The old lady's dinner has been prepared. Every year, I refuse to reward some decent dinners. Sure enough, we are not as good as Feng girl?" Let's go to eat at home, ignore him." Jiamu said with a smile: "You are offering sacrifices to your ancestors here, and you are so busy, there is enough room for me to make trouble. Besides, if I don't eat every year, you have to give it away. Why don't you return it?" Send it away, I can't eat it and save it for tomorrow, why don't you eat more." Everyone who said that laughed.He also told him: "It's not careless to send proper people to watch incense at night." Youshi agreed.On the one hand, he walked out to the warm pavilion and got on the sedan chair.Youshi and others flashed across the screen, and then the servants led the bearers and invited the sedan chair out of the gate.Youshi also went to Rongfu with Mrs. Xing.

Here the sedan chair goes out of the gate. On this street, on the east side, there are Ning Guogong's ceremonial deacon musical instruments, and on the west side, Rong Guogong's ceremonial deacon musical instruments are lined up.When I came to Rongfu for a while, the main hall of the gate opened straight to the end.Now I don't get off the sedan chair in Nuan Pavilion. After passing the hall, I turn west and get on and off the sedan chair in the main hall on Jiamu's side.All the people surrounded and accompanied Jiamu to the main room, which was also completely new after the judgment of the Jin Dynasty.Pine and cypress incense and lily grass are burning in the local brazier.Mother Jia went back to her seat, and the old mother came back and said, "Old ladies come to salute." Mother Jia hurriedly got up again to greet her, only to see that two or three old sisters-in-law had come in.Everyone held hands, laughed once, and gave way once.After tea, Mother Jia only sent her to Neiyi Gate and then came back and sat down.Jia Jing, Jia Amnesty and others led the children in.Jia Mu laughed and said, "One year's price is too much for you, so don't be polite." While talking, men and women together, and they all saluted together.Chairs were set up on the left and right sides, and then returned to sit and receive the ceremony in order of seniority and youth.The men, women, servants and maidservants of the two governments also saluted up and down according to their duties, scattered the old money, purses, gold and silver, and put on a carnival feast.Men and women sat back to the west, offering Tusu wine, acacia soup, auspicious fruits, and wishful cakes. After that, Jia Mu got up and went into the inner room to change clothes, and everyone dispersed.That night, incense offerings were made in front of the Stove King in various Buddhist halls. In the courtyard of Mrs. Wang’s main house, incense offerings of heaven and earth paper and horses were set up. There were also big bright corner lanterns on the main gate of the Grand View Garden.

The upper and lower people are all dressed up in colorful flowers, and there is a lot of people's voices, talking and laughing all night, and firecrackers are on fire, and there is an endless stream.At the fifth drum of the next day, Jia Mu and others made up again according to their products, and put all the deacons into the palace to congratulate and wish Yuanchun and Qianqiu.After receiving the banquet, he went to Ningfu to offer sacrifices to the ancestors. After receiving the ceremony, he changed his clothes and rested.All the relatives and friends who come to celebrate the festival will not know it. They only talk to Aunt Xue and Aunt Li for convenience, or play Go and play cards with Baoyu, Baoqin, Chai, Yu and other sisters.Mrs. Wang and Sister Feng are busy inviting people to have New Year's wine every day. The hall and upper courtyard over there are full of opera wine. There are endless streams of relatives and friends.It was early and the Lantern Festival was approaching, and the two mansions of Ningrong and Rong were decorated with lanterns and festoons.On the eleventh, Jia Amnesty invited Jia Mu to wait, and the next day Jia Zhen asked again, and Jia Mu went to pick it up for half a day.Mrs. Wang and Sister Feng were invited to have New Year's wine for several days, which is hard to remember.On the evening of the [-]th, Mother Jia ordered a few tables of wine in the Dahua Hall, ordered a small show, hung all kinds of beautiful lights, and led the family banquets of the sons, nephews, grandchildren, grandchildren, grandchildren and grandchildren of the Rongning Second Mansion.Jia Jingsu didn't drink or invite him. After the ancestral sacrifice was over on the next seventeen days, he still went out of the city to cultivate.Even in the past few days at home, it is also a quiet place in a clean room, and I am not heard or heard at all.Jia Amnesty received Jia's mother's gift, so he left.Jia Mu knew that he was inconvenient here, so she let him go.Since Jia She came home to watch the lanterns and eat wine with all the guests, he was naturally singing and singing, his eyes were full of beauty, and he was happy when he took it, which was different from here.

There are a total of ten seats on the Jiamu Flower Hall here.There is a table next to each table, and there are three stoves and vases on the table, burning the imperial lily palace incense.Another eight inches long, four to five inches wide, and two to three inches high are small bonsai lit with rocks and covered with moss, all of which are fresh flowers.There are also small foreign lacquer tea trays, with old kiln teacups and assorted small tea hangings inside, and the top-quality famous tea is brewed in them.All of them are red sandalwood openwork carvings, inlaid with wreaths of scarlet gauze embroidered flowers and cursive poetry.It turned out that the one who embroidered this necklace was also a woman from Gusu named Hui Niang.Because he is also a scholarly eunuch, he was originally good at calligraphy and painting, but occasionally embroidered one or two pieces of needlework for fun, which is not a commercial item.All the flowers embroidered on this screen are imitations of the folded flowers of famous artists in Tang, Song, Yuan, and Ming Dynasties, so the format and color matching are all elegant, and it is not just a bright and colorful craftsman, but every flower side is inscribed with this flower by the ancients. The old sentences, or poems and songs are different, all embroidered with black velvet to embroider cursive characters, and the handwriting is no different from brush strokes, twists, turns, severity, and continuity, and it is no worse than city embroidery handwriting boards.He doesn't rely on this skill to make a profit, so although the world knows, very few people get it, and there are many people who don't have it in the rich and noble families of all officials, so it is called "Hui embroidery" today.There are secular profit shooters who imitate their stitches recently, and fools profit.However, this Hui Niang died and died, and now she can't get another one.Even if there are one or two pieces in all the houses, they are all treasured and used.There are those gentlemen of Hanlin literature and magic, because they deeply appreciate the beauty of "Hui embroidery", they say that the word "embroidery" cannot be perfect, and it seems abrupt to say the word "embroidery" in such handwriting, so everyone discusses it. The word "embroidery" was hidden and the word "pattern" was replaced, so it is now called "Huiwen".If there is a real "wisdom pattern", the price is infinite.There are only two or three pieces of the glory of Jia's mansion. Last year, those two pieces were brought into the top, and now there is only this pair of necklaces, a total of sixteen pieces. Jia's mother's love is like a treasure. Stay on your side and enjoy the wine when you are happy.There are also various old kiln vases dotted with flowers and plants such as "Three Friends of Sui Han" and "Yutang Fugui".

The two seats above are Aunt Li and Aunt Xue.On the east side, Jiamu set up a couch with short feet and short legs with openwork carved dragon shield, complete with backrest, pillows and leather mattresses.On the couch, there is a very light and light foreign lacquer and gilt table at one end. On the table are tea hangers, tea bowls, gargle bowls, foreign towels, etc., and a glasses case.Mother Jia leaned on the couch, chatted and laughed with everyone, took her own glasses to take a picture on the stage, and smiled to Aunt Xue and Aunt Li: "Forgive me for being old, my bones hurt, and I am presumptuous. Let me accompany you crookedly." Let it go." Yin ordered Amber to sit on the couch and beat her legs with the beauty's fist.There is no table under the couch, only a high table, but there are wreaths, vases, incense burners and other things.In addition, set up an exquisite small high table with wine cups, spoons and chopsticks. I set up my own seat beside the couch, and ordered Baoqin, Xiangyun, Daiyu and Baoyu to sit there.Every dish and fruit came, first held it up with Jiamu to see, Xi then stayed on the small table to taste, and then put it on the table for four of them, only the four of them sat with Jiamu.Therefore, the next one is Mrs. Xing and Mrs. Wang, and then there are You Shi, Li Wan, Sister Feng and Jia Rong's wife.All the way to the west is Baochai, Li Wen, Li Qi, Xiuyan, Yingchun sisters and so on.On the beams on both sides, there are a pair of three-point five-glass hibiscus and colorful tassel lights.In front of each table stands a lacquer-dried upside-down lotus leaf, on which there are candle letters and colorful candles inserted.The lotus leaf is chiseled and enamel, and the letter can be turned around. Now the lotus leaf is turned outward, forcing the shadow of the lamp to shine outward, making it very realistic to watch the play.The panes and doors are all taken off, and all kinds of palace lanterns are hung with colorful tassels.Inside and outside the corridor eaves and on both sides of the corridor canopy, all kinds of horns, glass, poked yarn, silk, or embroidered, or painted, or stacked, or cut, or silk, or paper lamps are hung.The seats on the corridor are Jia Zhen, Jia Lian, Jia Huan, Jia Cong, Jia Rong, Jia Qin, Jia Yun, Jia Ling, Jia Chang and so on.

Jia Mu also sent people to invite men and women from all the clans, but some of them were old and lazy, or they had no one at home, or they were sick and couldn't come, or they were jealous of the rich. Those who are ashamed and poor do not come, and there are even those who are afraid of Sister Feng's character and do not come in a fit of anger, or those who are ashamed and not used to seeing people, dare not come: Therefore, although there are many people in the clan, the female guests who come are just Jia Zhu's mother, Lou Shi, brought Jia Zhu here, and the only males were Jia Qin, Jia Yun, Jia Chang, and Jia Ling, who were now working under Sister Feng's command.Although there are not all the people at present, in the small family banquet, it can be regarded as lively.Then Lin Zhixiao's wife brought six daughters-in-law and carried three kang tables, each of which was covered with a red felt. Two people take one.There are three in total.According to the instructions of Lin Zhixiao's family, put the two sheets under the table of Aunt Xue and Aunt Li, and send one to Mother Jia's couch.Then Jia Mu said, "Let's put it locally." The daughters-in-law, who knew the rules, put down the table, opened up all the money, pulled out the colored ropes, and scattered them on the table.Singing lt; lt; West Building.Lou Huigt;gt; This is about to end, when Yu Shuye went out because of anger, Wen Bao said: "You went out because of anger, it just so happens that today is the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the old ancestors in the Rongguo Mansion have a family banquet, treat me After riding this horse, it is important to rush in and ask for some fruit to eat."

After finishing speaking, Jia's mother and others all laughed.Aunt Xue and others said, "What a ghost boy. I'm sorry to see you." Sister Feng said, "The child is only nine years old." Character.There were already three daughters-in-law who were already preparing the dustpans. When they heard the word "reward", they went up to the pile of loose money on the table. Each of them picked up a dustpan and came out to the stage and said, "Old ancestor, auntie, The wife of the in-laws rewards Wen Bao to buy fruit to eat!" As he said, he threw money on the stage, only to hear the sound of money clattering all over the stage.Jia Zhen and Jia Lian have ordered the servants to bring the money in the big dustpan and prepare to be there secretly.Hearing Jiamu's reward, you must know it——