Dream of the Red Mansion

It is said that the three of them hurriedly covered up the words because they saw Tanchun and others coming in.Tanchun and others greeted each other, and everyone chatted and laughed for a while before they dispersed.

Unexpectedly, the old concubine who was presented last time has passed away, and all orders and orders will be guarded by the imperial class according to the system of nobility.An imperial decree to the world: all noble families are not allowed to have banquets and music for one year, and common people are not allowed to marry for three months.Jia's mother, Xing, Wang, You, Xu's mother-in-law, grandson and grandson all went to the court every day for sacrifices, and did not return until they were upright.After 21 days in the side palace of Da Nei, Fang invites the spirit to enter the Xianling, and the place name is Xiaoci County.It took more than ten days for this mausoleum to travel to and from the capital. Now that the spirit is here, it will be parked for several days before entering the underground palace, so it has a moonlight.Jiazhen and his wife in Ningfu must go there.There is no one in the two mansions, so everyone discusses, and there is no owner in the family, so they report You's birth, move him out, and assist Rongning with two matters.Because he entrusted Aunt Xue to take care of his sister's maid in the garden.Aunt Xue had to move into the garden too.Because there is Xiangyun Xiangling in Baochai's place, Li Wan's place is where Aunt Li and her daughter go, but sometimes they come to live for three or five days, and Jia's mother sends Baoqin to him to take care of it. Because of the tedious housework in Chun, and Aunt Zhao and Jia Huan coming to make noise from time to time, it is very inconvenient. Xichun's house is small, and Kuang Jia's mother has repeatedly entrusted him to take care of Lin Daiyu. Aunt Xue Suxi also loves him the most. Today Since this happened by chance, I moved to the Xiaoxiang Pavilion to share the same room with Daiyu, and I was very careful about eating and drinking the medicine bait.Daiyu couldn't help but feel grateful, and from now on she would call Baochai like Baochai, even Baochai would call her sister, and Baoqin would call her younger sister, as if her compatriots came out together, more cordial than others.Seeing this, Jia's mother was also very happy and relieved.

Aunt Xue just took care of his sisters, and she was so forbidden to make appointments as a girl, and she would not talk too much about family affairs.Although Mrs. You came here every day, he did not want to act indiscriminately by his name, and he was the only cook left in his family, besides, he had to take care of Mrs. Jia Muwang's lower quarters every day to meet her needs. Drinking and laying things, so it is also very hard work.

At present, the owners of Rongning and Ning are so overwhelmed, and the two deacons, some of them follow into the court, some of them go out to take care of the affairs of the subordinates, and some of them step on the subordinates first, are also in a hurry.As a result, the servants of the two places had no serious clues, and they also secretly settled down, or formed a party by taking advantage of the gap, and teased Weifu with the temporary deacon.Only Lai Da and a few stewards were left in Rongfu to take care of foreign affairs.Several of Lai Da's subordinates have already left. Although they have been appointed, they are all freshmen, and they feel uncomfortable.Moreover, they are ignorant, or cheat without integrity, or sue without evidence, or recommend without reason, all kinds of bad things are happening, and it is difficult to prepare them.

I also saw that all the officials and eunuchs who raised actors and actresses were exempted from sending them away. You and others agreed that when Mrs. Wang returned home and returned to Ming Dynasty, she also wanted to send twelve girls, and said, "These people originally bought Yes, even if you don’t learn to sing now, you can keep it at your disposal and let its teachers go away.” Mrs. Wang said: “The opera learners are better than those who can’t be used. They are also the children of a good family, because they can’t sell them. In order to do this, I have been pretending to be ugly for a few years. Now that I have this opportunity, it is better to give them a few taels of silver and go to each other. There was such a case in the hands of our ancestors back then. We are now corrupt and corrupt, and we are still young Although a few old ones are still there, they have their own reasons and refused to go back, so they stayed and served as servants of our family when they grow up." You Shi said: "Now we I also asked twelve of them, and if anyone was willing to go back, he brought a letter and called his parents to come and get it back in person, and gave them a few taels of silver to wrap it up. If you don't call his parents and relatives, I'm afraid some people will Wouldn’t it be a failure to live up to this grace if the accountant took it out under his name and resold it. If anyone is unwilling to go back, stay.”

Mrs. Wang laughed and said, "That's a good idea." You Shi and others sent someone to tell Sister Feng.On the one hand, in the room with the Prime Minister, eight taels of silver are given to each teacher, so that he can take care of himself.Every object in Lixiangyuan should be checked and registered, and sent to the night.Called twelve girls to interview, more than half of them were unwilling to go home: Some said that even though they had parents, they only wanted to sell us, and they were sold by him after this trip, and some parents died, or were kidnapped. Some uncles and brothers sold those that no one could vote for, and some said they were reluctant to part with them.There are only four or five people who wish to go.After listening to Mrs. Wang, she had to stay.Four or five people who will go will ask their godmothers to take them home, and wait for their parents to come and take them, and disperse those who don't want to go in the garden.Jiamu left the civil officials to do her own thing, referring Zhengdan Fang to Baoyu, Xiaodan Rui to Baochai, Xiaosheng Ouguan to Daiyu, Dahuamiankui to Xiangyun, and Xiaohua to Xiangyun. Mian Dou Guan sent Baoqin, and Ai Guan, a foreigner, to Tanchun, and Youshi begged Lao Dan Ke Guan to go.Now everyone is in their place, just like a tired bird out of the cage, playing in the garden every day.Everyone knows that they can't needle and are not used to it, so they don't blame them much.There may be one or two governors among them, worrying that they will not have the skills to meet the times in the future, they also throw away their skills and learn how to do things like needlework and spinning.

One day it was the Great Sacrifice of the court, so Jia Mu went to wait for the fifth watch. First, she went to the lower place to have some snacks, and then entered the court.After breakfast, he retreated to the lower place. After breakfast, he rested for a while, and then went back to the court to wait for the midday and evening sacrifices. Then he went out to the lower place to rest, and went home after dinner.Coincidentally, this place is the family temple of a high-ranking official, which was burnt and repaired by a bhikkhuni. There are many and clean houses.For the east and west courtyards, the Rong Mansion rented the East Courtyard, and the Beijing Prince's Mansion rented the West Courtyard.The concubine and the concubine have a banquet every day. They see Jia's mother waiting in the east courtyard, going in and out with each other, and they all take care of them.There is no need to elaborate on the details outside.

In addition, in the Grand View Garden, because Mrs. Jia Muwang is not at home every day, she sends her spirit to return in January. All the maids and women have free time and play in the garden more.He also withdrew all the women who were serving in the Lixiang courtyard and scattered them in the garden to listen to his envoys. He felt that there were dozens more people in the garden.Because civil servants and other people are arrogant, or rely on power to dominate, or pick clothes and food, or have sharp quarrels, there are probably many restless and reasonable people.Therefore, all the women complained, but they dared not share their certificates with them.Now that school is over, everyone has said their wish, and some have thrown away their hands, and some are narrow-minded and still nostalgic, because they have divided everyone under the name of each room, and dare not come and invade.

Coincidentally, this day is the day of Qingming, and Jia Lian has prepared the next year's sacrificial offerings. He leads Jia Huan, Jia Cong, and Jia Lan to Tiekan Temple to sacrifice the coffin and burn paper.Jia Rong of Ningfu also went to the same clan to hold sacrifices.Because Baoyu was not healed, he never went to get it.Tired after dinner, Xiren said, "The weather is very good. Go out for a stroll, so that you don't have to leave the porridge bowl and go to sleep. It's in your heart." Baoyu heard that she had to walk out of the hospital with a stick and shoes. .Recently, the garden has been distributed to all the women for cooking, and when they are all busy, there are bamboo repairers, tree growers, flower growers, and bean growers, and there are women driving in the pool. Seed lotus root with mud in the boat.Xiangling, Xiangyun, Baoqin and the servant girls are all sitting on the rocks, watching them for fun.Baoyu also walked slowly.When Xiangyun saw him coming, he laughed quickly and said, "Hurry up and send this boat out, they are picking up Sister Lin." Everyone laughed.Baoyu blushed, and said with a smile, "Whoever means someone's illness is kind, you describe it as a joke." Xiangyun laughed and said, "The illness is also different from others. It's a joke, but it's a human being." With that said, Baoyu also sat down and watched the crowd bustle for a while.Xiang Yunyin said: "It's windy here, and it's cold on the rocks, just sit down."

Baoyu was also going to see Lin Daiyu, so he got up and said goodbye to them on crutches, and walked along the embankment near Qinfang Bridge.I saw willows hanging golden threads, peaches spouting red clouds, behind the rocks, a big apricot tree, the flowers have all fallen, the leaves are thick and green, and many small apricots the size of beans have grown on it.Baoyu thought to himself: "I can be sick for a few days, but I have let down the apricot blossoms! I don't feel it. The green leaves are full of shade and the branches are full!"I also remembered that Xing Xiuyan had chosen a husband and son-in-law. Although it was an important matter for men and women, it was necessary, but it was inevitable that another good daughter would be lost.But in two years, it will be "green leaves and shades and branches full of branches".In a few days, the apricot tree will be empty of branches, and in a few years, Xiuyan will have black hair like silver and a red face like haggard, so I can't help but feel sad, just cry and sigh at the apricot.While lamenting, suddenly a sparrow flew over and landed on a branch, singing wildly.Baoyu became dazed again, and thought to himself: "This bird must have been here when the apricot blossoms were in full bloom. Now I see that there are no flowers and there are cotyledons, so it is also crying. This rhyme must be the sound of crying. It is hateful." Mr. Gongye is not in front of us, so we can't ask him. But I don't know when it will be sent again next year, does this sparrow still remember to fly here to spend a while with Xinghua?" Just as he was thinking, he suddenly saw a burst of fire from the side of the rock , Frightened the sparrow into the air.Baoyu was taken aback, and then heard someone shouting: "Ouguan, you are going to die, how can you get some paper money to burn? I'll go back to my grandma and watch your meat!" Baoyu became more and more puzzled when he heard this. When I hurriedly turned around the rocks to look, I saw the lotus root official squatting there with tears on his face, still holding a fire in his hand, guarding some paper money ashes for mourning.Baoyu hurriedly asked: "Who are you burning paper money with? Don't burn it here. You are for your parents and brothers. You tell me your name, and go outside and ask the boys to pack their bags and write their names and burn them." After leaving Baoyu, he just didn't make a sound.Baoyu asked a few questions but didn't answer, and suddenly saw a woman coming to pull the lotus root official bitterly, and said in her mouth, "I have already returned to the grandmas, and grandma is very angry." After hearing this, the lotus root officer was childish and afraid Humiliated and shameless, he refused to go.The mother-in-law said: "I say you don't get too excited. Now it's better than you mess around outside. This is a place of size." Pointing to Baoyu, he said, "Even our master still obeys the rules. What are you? A Wu'er, come here to mess around. I'm afraid it won't work, so hurry up with me!"

Baoyu hurriedly said: "He didn't burn the paper money. It was Sister Lin who asked him to burn the rotten paper. You didn't see the truth, but you told him by mistake." He was afraid, but when he heard him cover it up, his heart turned from worry to joy, so he said stiffly, "Do you really think it's really paper money? What I burned was Miss Lin's ruined writing paper!" The old woman heard so , also became ruthless, bent down to pick up the incomplete leftover paper from the paper ashes, picked up two points in his hand, and said: "You are still stubborn, here is the evidence. I only talk to you in the hall. Go!" As he spoke, he pulled up his sleeves and tugged to leave.Baoyu hurriedly grabbed the lotus root official, knocked the woman's hand away with a stick, and said, "Just take that back. I'll tell you the truth: I had a dream last night. I dreamed that the Xinghua God wanted to hang with me. Don’t ask someone in my room to burn the white paper money. If a stranger burns it for me, my illness will recover quickly. So I asked for the white money, and Mrs. Babaer and Miss Lin bothered him to burn it for me. Congratulations. No one was allowed to know, that’s why I was able to get up today, but you saw it. I’m in a bad mood again, and you rushed! You still have to sue him. Ou Guan, just go, see If you get rid of them, just follow what I say. When the old lady comes back, I will say that he deliberately came to attack the gods to ensure that I die early." After hearing this, the lotus officer became more and more convinced, and instead dragged the old lady to leave.After hearing this, the old woman hurriedly dropped the paper money and begged Baoyu with a smile, "I didn't know. If the second master returned to the old lady, wouldn't my old lady be finished? Now I go back to the grandmothers and say yes." I saw it wrong." Baoyu said: "You are not allowed to go back again, so I won't say anything." The woman said: "I have already gone back. Ask me to bring him. Why don't I go back. Forget it, Just say that I have called him, and Miss Lin has called." Baoyu thought about it, and Fang nodded in agreement.The old woman had to go.

Here Baoyu asked him: "Who is the paper burning for? I think if it is your parents and brothers, you have burned it outside. There must be a private reason for burning these papers here." He knew that he was a first-class person, so he said with tears: "No one knows about me except Fang Guan in your house and Miss Bao's Rui Guan. I met you today, and this I have to tell you some meaning, but I’m not allowed to talk to others anymore.” He cried again: “It’s not convenient for me to tell you face to face, you just go back and ask Fang Guan behind the back of someone and you’ll know.” After finishing speaking, pretend to be normal and go.

When Baoyu heard this, she was puzzled, so she had to walk to the Xiaoxiang Pavilion. Seeing that Daiyu was getting thinner and pitiful, when she asked, she was getting bigger than before.Seeing that he was also much thinner than before, Daiyu shed tears when she thought of the past. After a little talk, she urged Baoyu to rest and recuperate.Baoyu had to come back.Because I was worried about asking Fangguan what happened, Xiangyun Xiangling came and was joking with Xiren Fangguan.

For a while, Fangguan went to wash his hair with his godmother.His godmother asked his own daughter to wash it first, and then asked Fang Guan to wash it.Seeing this, Fang Guan said that he was biased, "Give me your daughter's leftover water to wash. You keep my monthly money for a month. It doesn't count if you are in my favor, but give me the leftovers. " His godmother became ashamed and became angry, so she scolded him: "I don't know how to praise! No wonder everyone says that opera singers are not easy to deal with. You are such a good person, and you are ruined when you enter this industry. This is a bitch , also pick one pick six, salty talk, like a mule biting a group!" The two women quarreled.

The attacker hurriedly sent someone to say, "Stop shouting. Seeing that the old lady is not at home, everyone doesn't even say a word." It's like killing the king of thieves and capturing the rebels." Xiren said, "You can't slap a slap. The old ones are too unfair, and the young ones are too hateful." Baoyu said, "I can't complain. Fang Guan. Since ancient times, it has been said: "If things are not fair, there will be a cry. He lost his relatives and lost his family. He has no one to take care of him here, and he has earned his money. It is strange to make him cheap." Because he said to Xiren again: "He once How much is the monthly fee? Wouldn’t it be easier for you to take it over and take care of him in the future?” Attacker said: “I want to take care of him, but how much money do I need to take care of him? No need to be scolded. "Speaking, he got up and went to the room to get a bottle of dew oil and some chicken eggs, soap, headbands, etc., and asked a woman to come and give it to Fang Guan, and told him to wash himself with water, so don't make any noise. .His godmother became more and more ashamed, so she said Fangguan "has no conscience, I will withhold your money if you spend it." She patted him a few times, and Fangguan began to cry.Baoyu went out, and the attacker hurriedly persuaded: "What are you doing? I'll talk to him." Qingwen hurriedly came over first, pointed to his godmother and said, "Your old man is too troublesome. If you don't give him something to wash his hair, we will spare him." You don’t feel ashamed of his stuff, you still have the guts to beat him. If he’s still studying at school, you dare to beat him!” The woman said, “I’m a mother for a day, and a mother for the rest of my life. I can fight!" Xiren called Sheyue and said, "I don't know how to quarrel with others, Qingwen is too impatient, so go over and scare him."

After hearing this, Musk Moon hurriedly came over and said, "Don't shout. Let me ask you, don't talk about our place. Look at the whole garden. Who taught the daughter in the master's house? It is your own daughter." , now that the house is divided, and the master is beaten and scolded by the master, and the older girls and sisters are beaten and scolded, who wants me to meddle in my own business again? They all manage like this, and they have to be called What do you learn from us? The older you get, the more you lose the rules! When you see Zhuier's mother arguing, you also come to learn from him? Don't worry, because the old lady has been sick for a few days, so I didn't return After two days of leisure, let's go back to the pain, and let everyone take a breather. Baoyu is better. Even if we dare not speak loudly, you will fight back. After a few days, you will be lawless, and you will lose your sight of us, and you will beat us in two days. He doesn’t want you, godmother, and he’s afraid that he won’t be buried in dung?” Baoyu hated to hit him with a stick The door threshold said: "These old women are all iron-hearted and stone-hearted. It is also a strange thing. They can't take care of them, but they are frustrated. Forever, what should be done!" Qingwen said: "What. What should be done, they are all kicked out , don’t want these fancy things!” The woman was ashamed and said nothing.That Fangguan was only wearing a begonia red padded jacket, under which were silk floral trousers, the trousers were left open, his hair like black oil was hanging behind his head, and he was crying like a tearful person.Musk Moon laughed and said, "Turn Miss Yingying into a tortured matchmaker! Now I don't dress up anymore, and I'm still so slack." Baoyu said: "He has a very good face, so don't make it It's tight." Qingwen went over and pulled him, washed his hair, wrung it dry with a towel, and loosely tied his makeup in a bun, ordering him to come over here with his clothes on.

Then the mother-in-law of the house cook came and asked: "I have dinner, can I send it?" The little girl heard this and came in to ask Xiren.Xiren said with a smile, "I just had a quarrel for a while, and I didn't pay attention to the clock." Qingwen said, "I don't know what's wrong with Lao Shizi, and I have to clean it up again." Then, he took the watch and looked at it. He looked at it and said, "Just wait for half an hour for tea." The little girl went.Musk Moon said with a smile: "Speaking of being naughty, Fang Guan should also hit him a few times. He played with the pendant yesterday, and it broke in half a day." While speaking, he made the tableware ready-made.For a while, the little girl came in holding the box and stopped.When Qingwen Sheyue opened it and looked at it, there were still only four side dishes.Qingwen smiled and said, "It's ready, and I don't want to give you two light dishes. How long will this porridge and pickles last?" While laying it out, she looked at the box again, but there was a bowl of ham and fresh bamboo shoot soup, which she hurriedly put on the table. In front of Baoyu.Baoyu took a sip from the table and said, "It's so hot!" The attacker laughed and said, "Bodhisattva, you can't see meat for a few days, and you're so greedy."Seeing that Fang Guan was by his side, he handed it to Fang Guan and said with a smile, "You also learn to serve as servants, don't just sleep in a daze. Take it lightly, don't blow on saliva stars." Fang Guan followed his words and blew it. A few mouthfuls are quite appropriate.

His godmother was also busy serving meals outside the door.When officer Xiang Rifang arrived, he had recognized him from the outside, so he went to Lixiangyuan together.This godmother was originally a third-class figure in the Rong Mansion, but she never agreed to wash with them, so she doesn't know the inner rules.Now I also rely on them to enter the garden and return to the house with my daughter.This old woman had experienced Musk Moon's ostentation first, so she knew a little or two. She was afraid that Fang Guan would not recognize her as a godmother, and there would be many failures, so she only wanted to buy them.Seeing Fangguan blowing the soup, he ran in and laughed, "He's not mature. He beat the bowl carefully. Let me blow it."Qingwen hurriedly shouted: "Get out! You let him smash the bowl, and it's not your turn to blow it up. Why did you come here at any time? You still don't go out." She scolded the little girls: "You are blind!" , He doesn’t know, and you don’t tell him!” The little girls all said: “We kicked him out, but he didn’t go out, and he didn’t believe him when we talked about him. Now you’re making us angry, can you believe it? Where we went , Half of you have arrived, and half of you can't reach. Besides, it doesn't matter if you run to a place where we can't go, and you have to stretch your hand and mouth again." Said while pushing him out.Seeing him coming out, the wives who were waiting for the empty box all laughed and said, "My sister-in-law didn't even use a mirror to take a look, so she went in." The shy old woman hated and was angry, so she had to endure it.

Fangguan blew a few mouthfuls, and Baoyu said with a smile, "Okay, I'm hurt carefully. You have a taste, is it okay?" Fangguan only took it as obstinate words, just smiled and looked at Xiren and so on.Xiren said, "You just have a sip." Qingwen said with a smile, "Look, I'll taste it." Then she took a sip.Seeing this, Fang Guan took a sip himself and said, "Okay." Pass it to Baoyu.Baoyu drank half a bowl, ate a few slices of bamboo shoots, and half a bowl of porridge, that's all.Everyone picked them out.The little girl held the washbasin in her hand, finished washing, and Xiren waited to go out to eat.Baoyu winks at Fang Guan. Fang Guan is clever by nature and has studied opera for several years. Why doesn't he know?He pretended to have a headache and stopped eating.Xiren said: "If you don't eat, you will be a companion in the house. I will save this porridge for you. I will eat it when I am hungry." Then they all went.

Here Baoyu and him are only two people, so Baoyu started from the fire just now, how he met Ouguan, how he lied and protected him, and how Ouguan asked me to ask you, from beginning to end, told him in detail, and asked again Who is the fruit of his sacrifice?Fangguan listened, smiled, sighed again, and said, "This is both ridiculous and lamentable." Baoyu asked what happened after hearing this.Fangguan laughed and said, "Who do you think he sacrificed? He sacrificed the dead officials." Baoyu said, "This is friendship, and it should be." Fangguan laughed and said, "Where is friendship? He is crazy Silly thinking, saying that he himself is a young student, the official is Xiaodan, and they are often husband and wife. , Ordinary eating and sitting, the two of you are actually loving each other. When the official died, he cried to death, and he has never forgotten it, so he burned paper every section. Later, we made up the official Rui. We saw him as gentle and considerate, and we also asked him Get the new and discard the old. He said: There is another big reason. For example, when a man loses his wife, or if he has to be a continuation, he must also be a continuation. Just don’t forget about the dead, it’s love It's very meaningful. If you stay alone for the rest of your life just because of the continuation of death, it's unreasonable to interfere with the great integrity, and the deceased will feel uneasy. Are you crazy and dumb? Is it ridiculous?" Baoyu heard about this article The nonsense, just in line with his stupidity, he felt joy and lament at the same time, also known as Qidaojue, saying: "Since God was born with such a person, why use my filthy bastard to insult the world."

Because he hurriedly pulled Fang Guan and said: "Since I said so, I also have a word to tell him. It would be inconvenient for me to talk to him face to face. You have to tell him." Fang Guan asked what was the matter.Baoyu said: "In the future, you must never burn paper money. This paper money was originally a heresy of later generations, not the teachings of Confucius. From now on, you will only have one stove for every season and festival, and you can burn incense casually on that day. If you are devout, you can be grateful. The fool I don’t know, regardless of gods, Buddhas and dead people, there must be different cases, all kinds of cases. I don’t know that there is only one. If it is clean, it can be used as a sacrifice. Not only the dead enjoy the sacrifice, but also gods and ghosts. Look at my case, there is only one furnace, and incense is always burned regardless of the day. They don’t know the reason, but I have my own heart. The reason. If you have clean tea, you can offer a bell of tea, if you have fresh water, you can offer a cup of water, or there are flowers, or fresh fruits, or even meat and fishy vegetables. As long as the heart is pure and pure, even the Buddha can come to enjoy it, so Said, it's only for respect and not for fame. In the future, order him not to burn paper anymore." After hearing this, Fang Guan agreed.After eating for a while, someone replied: "Old lady, the lady is back."——