Dream of the Red Mansion

It is said that Ping'er came out and told Lin Zhixiao's family: "Turning big things into small things and small things into nothing is a prosperous family. If you can't get a little thing, it doesn't make sense to toss around with bells and drums. Now let him go Take the mother and daughter back, and go on errands as usual. Return Qin Xian's family. There is no need to mention this matter again. It is just important to be careful to inspect every day." After finishing speaking, he got up and left.The mother and daughter of the Liu family kowtowed hurriedly, and the Lin family took them back to the garden, and went back to Li Wan to explore the spring. They both said, "I see. It's fine if there's nothing wrong."Then Qin Xian's family finally waited for this loophole to take advantage of it, and they were only excited for a long time.In the kitchen, I was messing around to receive guys' rice, grain, coal, etc., and found out a lot of deficits, saying: "The round-grained rice is two shi short, and the regular rice has been paid for a month longer, and the charcoal is also owed the amount." He arranged a gift for Lin Zhixiao's family, quietly prepared a basket of charcoal, five hundred catties of firewood, and a load of round-grained rice, and sent his nephew and nephew to the Lin family outside, and then arranged a gift for the tent, and prepared some vegetables. Invite a few colleagues and say: "I am here, thanks to everyone's support. From now on, we are a family. I have something I can't take care of. Anyway, everyone should take care of it." In the chaos, someone suddenly said Tell him: "Go out after seeing this breakfast. Sister-in-law Liu is fine, and now I leave it to him." Qin Xian's family listened, and his soul was blown away. out.A lot of things that were given away were lost in vain, and I would have to change them to make up for the shortfall.Even Siqi fell on his back in anger, there was no way to save him, so he had to let it go.Because of Caiyun's private donation of many things, Aunt Zhao was quarreled by Yu Chuan'er, and she was afraid of being questioned, so she sweated every day to ask for the letter.Suddenly, Caiyun came to tell him, "it's all Baoyu's answer, and nothing will happen from now on." Aunt Zhao just put her heart at ease.Unexpectedly, when Jia Huan heard this, he became suspicious. He took out all the things that Caiyunfan had donated privately, threw them in Caiyun's face, and said, "These two-sided things! I don't care about them. You don't want to be with Baoyu." Well, how can he answer for you. Since you have given me the responsibility, you should not have told anyone. Now that you have told him, it is no fun for me to ask for this again." Seeing this, Caiyun hurriedly left Swear, as for crying.With all kinds of explanations, Jia Huan insisted not to believe it, and said: "Don't look at your usual feelings, go and tell the second sister-in-law that you stole it for me, but I dare not take it. You think about it." After finishing speaking, he threw his hands and went out. .Anxious Aunt Zhao scolded: "There are no seeds of good fortune, maggots have a wicked heart." An angry Caiyun cried and broke down.Aunt Zhao comforted him in every possible way: "My good boy, he failed your heart, I really see it. Let me put it away, and he will come back naturally in two days." Saying that, she wanted to collect the things.Caiyun wrapped it up in a fit of anger, and came to the garden when no one was there. They all left in Hanoi and drifted along the water.I was so angry that I was secretly crying.

Now it's Baoyu's birthday. It turns out that Baoqin is also on this day, and they are the same.Because Mrs. Wang is not at home, it has never been as lively as in previous years.Only Taoist Zhang sent four gifts, which were exchanged for name amulets, and monks and aunts from several monks and nuns temples gave offerings, and birthday paper horses and hair, and locks that were exchanged for the anniversary of Tai Sui, the birth star official.The daughter who often walks at home comes to celebrate her birthday.On Wang Ziteng's side, there is still a set of clothes, a pair of shoes and socks, a hundred longevity peaches, and a hundred bundles of silver noodles.Aunt Xue's place is reduced by one class.For the rest of the family, Youshi still has a pair of shoes and socks, and Sister Feng is a palace-made four-sided and lotus bag, which contains a golden birthday star and a plaything made in Persia.All the temples sent people to put money in the hall.There is also another gift of Baoqin, which cannot be described.The sisters are all casual, or have a fan, or a word, or a painting, or a poem, just chatting with the occasion.

This day Baoyu got up early in the morning, finished washing and washing, and brought out the crown.In the front courtyard, Li Gui and other four or five people have set up heaven and earth incense candles there, and the precious jade has burned incense.After finishing the ceremony, laying tea and burning paper, they went to the two ancestral halls of the Zhongzong Temple in Ningfu to complete the ceremony, went out to the platform, and went up to pay homage to Jia Mu, Jia Zheng, Mrs. Wang and so on.Yishun went to Youshi's room, saluted and sat down for a while before returning to Rongfu.First go to Aunt Xue, Aunt Xue pulls her again and again, then meets Xue Biao again, let him come into the garden once.Qingwen and Sheyue followed, and the little girl held the blanket, starting from Li's, one by one, and went to the long room.Come back to the second door, and give way to Li, Zhao, Zhang, and Wang's four nurses for a while before coming in.Although everyone wanted to salute, they never accepted it.Back in the room, Xiren and others just said something.Mrs. Wang said that if young people are not allowed to accept the ceremony, they may lose their longevity, so they don't kowtow.

After a break, Jia Huan and Jia Lan waited for him to come, Xiren stopped him quickly, sat down for a while, and then went.Baoyu laughed and said that he was tired of walking, so he lay on the bed.Fang ate half a cup of tea, only to hear the cards croaking outside, a group of girls came in laughing, it turned out to be Cuimo, Xiaoluo, Cuilu, Ruhua, Xing Xiuyan's girls Zhuan'er, and grandma hugging sisters, Cailuan, Xiuluan Eight or nine people, all holding the red felt, came with a smile, and said: "The birthday worshipers have squeezed the door, quickly bring us noodles." When they first came in, Tanchun, Xiangyun, Baoqin, Xiuyan, Xichun are also here.Baoyu greeted him hurriedly, and said with a smile, "Don't dare to start, get ready for tea." When entering the room, they inevitably gave way, and everyone returned to their seats.Xiren waited for the tea to come before he took a sip, and Ping'er also came dressed up beautifully.Baoyu greeted her hurriedly, and said with a smile, "I just went to Sister Feng's door, and I can't see you when I go back to the water. I sent someone in to let my sister." Ping'er laughed and said, "I'm sending your sister to comb her hair. Come out and come back to you. Later, when I heard that I was told to let me, I was banned there, so I came here to kowtow." Baoyu laughed and said, "I can't afford it either." Xiren had already settled down outside and let him sit. .Ping'er goes down, Baoyu keeps bowing.Ping'er knelt down, Baoyu also knelt down hurriedly, and Xiren hurriedly helped him up.Another blessing was given, and Baoyu returned another bow.Xiren smiled and pushed Baoyu: "You bow again." Baoyu said: "It's over, why do you bow again?" Xiren smiled and said: "This is him to pay your birthday wishes. Today is also his birthday, so you should give it to him too." Happy birthday." Hearing this, Baoyu bowed down happily and said, "It turns out that today is also my sister's birthday." Ping'er is still full of blessings.Xiangyun drew Baoqin and Xiuyan and said, "You four should pray to each other for one day." Tanchun hurriedly asked, "So sister Xing is also here today? Why did I forget?" Busy girl: "Go and tell Second Mistress, rush to make up a gift, the same as Miss Qin's, and send it to Second Miss's room." The girl agreed to go.Seeing that Xiangyun said it outright, Xiuyan had to go to each room to give way.Tanchun smiled and said: "It's interesting. There are twelve months in a year, and there are several birthdays in each month. There are too many people. It's a coincidence that there are three one-days and two one-days. The first day of the new year It’s not in vain, the eldest sister took it. I can’t blame him for being blessed, and his birthday is ahead of others. It’s the birthday of the great ancestor and grandpa. After the Lantern Festival, it’s the old lady and sister Bao, the two of them met by coincidence. On the first day of March, it was my wife, and on the ninth day, it was Lian's second elder brother. In February, there was no one." Xi Ren said, "On the twelfth day of February, Miss Lin, why is there no one? It's just not from our family." Tanchun laughed. "What's wrong with my memory!" Baoyu smiled and pointed at Xiren and said, "He and sister Lin are one day, so he remembers it." Tanchun laughed and said, "It turns out that you two are one day. Every year, you don't even have a head. Kowtow one for us. We don’t know Ping’er’s birthday, so that’s how we know.” Ping’er laughed and said, “We are the ones on that card, and we don’t have birthday blessings, and we don’t have the duty to accept ceremonies. What's the noise, don't go quietly. Today he made a noise again, and I'll salute when the girls go back to the room." Tanchun laughed and said, "I don't dare to disturb you. I just want to live for you today. On my birthday, I can live with my heart." Baoyu Xiangyun and others said together: "Very good." Then Tanchun ordered the girl: "Go tell his grandma, just say that we all said it, and go out today without letting go. , we also gathered together for birthday.” The girl went away with a smile, and after half a day, she came back and said, “Second Grandma said, thank you girls for giving him face. I don’t know what to give him for his birthday, just don’t forget the second Grandma, stop nagging him." Everyone laughed.Tan Chunyin said: "It's a coincidence that the kitchen doesn't prepare meals today, and as soon as the dishes below are prepared, they are all cleaned up outside. We pooled up the money and asked Liu's family to come and pick them up. It would be better if we just clean up inside." Everyone said yes. pole.On the one hand, Tanchun sent people to ask Li Wan, Baochai and Daiyu, and on the other hand, he sent people to pass on the news that Liu's family had come in and told him to clear up two tables of banquets in the inner kitchen.The Liu family didn't know what it meant, because they said that the outside kitchen was ready.Tanchun laughed and said: "You didn't know that today is Miss Ping's birthday. The ones prepared outside were prepared by the higher-ups. Now we have got together in private and prepared two tables for Miss Ping to invite him. You just pick new tricks." I have prepared the vegetables and vegetables, opened the account and got the money from me." The Liu family said with a smile: "It turns out that today is Miss Ping's Qianqiu, I didn't know." Then he kowtowed to Ping'er, and Ping'er panicked. Pull him up.The Liu family hurried to prepare the banquet.

Here Tanchun invited Baoyu again to eat noodles in the hall. When Li Wan and Baochai came together, they sent people to invite Aunt Xue and Daiyu.Because of the warm weather, Daiyu's illness gradually recovered, so she also came.There are so many flowers, crowding the people in the hall.

Unexpectedly, Xue Biao gave him four-color birthday gifts of towel, fan, incense and silk and Baoyu, so Baoyu went to eat noodles with him.Both families made birthday wine, rewarded each other, and received each other.At noon, Baoyu had two glasses of wine with Xue Biao.Baochai brought Baoqin over to salute Xue Biao, and when the cups were finished, Baochai told Xue Biao, "You don't have to send the wine at home over there. It's an empty trick. You just invite the guys to eat." Brother Bao and we have to wait for someone to go in, and we can't accompany you." Xue Biao hurriedly said: "Sister and brother, just invite, I'm afraid the guys will come too." The sisters are back.

As soon as he entered the corner door, Baochai ordered his mother-in-law to lock the door and asked for the key to take it by herself.Baoyu hurriedly said, "Why should this door be closed? There are not many people leaving. Besides, my aunt, sister, and younger sister are all inside. It would not be troublesome if I go to get something at home." Baochai laughed and said, "Be careful not to pass through." .Look at your side, there are no people from our side who have been involved in the past few days. You can see that this door is effective. If it is open, you can’t keep the people who want to go smoothly, and take a shortcut from here. Who is stopping? It's better to lock it up, even my mother and I, everyone don't go. Even if something happens, we can't rely on the people here." Baoyu laughed and said: "It turns out that my sister also knows that our side has recently Lost something?" Baochai laughed and said, "You only know two things, Rose dew and Fulingshuang, but they are transitive because of people. If it weren't for people, you wouldn't even know these two. You don't know how many other things are better than this." Two big ones. If you can’t make it out in the future, it’s everyone’s good fortune. If you make it out, I don’t know how many people will be involved. You are also a person who doesn’t care about things, so I’ll tell you. Ping’er is a sensible person. The son also told him, because his grandma was not outside, so he understood. If he didn't come out, everyone would be happy to let go. If he committed a crime, he already had a draft in his heart and had his own ideas, so he would not be wronged. You just listen to me, just be careful in the future, and don't say this to anyone else." Then, when he came to Qinfang Pavilion, he saw Xiren, Xiangling, Daishu, Suyun, Qingwen, Musk Moon, Fang Guan, Rui Guan, Ou Guan and a dozen other people were there watching the fish play.Seeing them coming, they all said: "The peony column is ready, go to the table quickly." Baochai and others accompanied them to the three small halls of the Hongxiang garden in the peony column.Lian Youshi has been invited here, and everyone is there, but there is no peace.

It turned out that when Ping'er went out, it was thanks to the gifts from Lin Zhu's family, one after another, many family members from the upper, middle and lower classes came to pay their respects and present gifts. Keep a few things, some don't accept them, and some accept them and give them to others immediately.After being busy for a while, I waited until Sister Feng had eaten noodles before I changed my clothes and came to the garden.

As soon as he entered the garden, several servant girls came to look for him, and they went to the Hongxiang garden together.I saw a tortoiseshell feast, and hibiscus on the mattress.Everyone laughed: "The birthday stars are all here." The four seats above were determined to allow four of them to sit, but none of them refused.Aunt Xue said: "I'm so old, and I don't fit in with your group. I feel panicked. It's better if I just lie down in the living room. I can't eat much, and I don't drink much. Here Let them take advantage of it." You Shi and others insisted on not following.Baochai said: "That's all. It's more comfortable to let my mother lean in the hall and send some favorite food. And no one is there in front, so I can take care of it." Tanchun and others laughed. "In this case, respect is worse than obedience." Because everyone sent him to the meeting hall, they saw that the maids were ordered to spread a brocade mattress and put pillows on the back, and then ordered: "I'm so good to beat my aunt's legs and ask for tea. Don't push and talk. When I come back, I will give you something, and my aunt will reward you after eating. Just don't leave here and go out." The little girls agreed.Tanchun waits for Fang to come back.For a long time, let Baoqin and Xiuyan sit on the table, Ping'er sits facing west, and Baoyu sits facing east.Tanchun picked up the mandarin ducks again, and they accompanied each other side by side and facing each other.At a table on the west side, Baochai and Daiyu Xiangyun welcomed and cherished the spring, and at the same time they pulled Xiangling and jade bracelets to fight horizontally.At the third table, You Shi Li Wan invited Xi Ren Caiyun to sit with him.On the four tables are Zicuckoo, Yinger, Qingwen, Xiaoluo, Siqi and others sitting around.At present, Tanchun and others still need to hold the lamp, and Baoqin and other four people all said, "I can't sit still for a day because of this trouble." That's all.The two daughters were going to play their songs for their birthdays, and they all said, "None of us want to listen to those wild words. Go up to the hall and tell your aunt to relieve your boredom." go.Baoyu then said, "It's boring to sit elegantly, and you need to obey orders." Some people said it was good to obey one order, and others said it was better to obey that order.Daiyu said: "According to me, I took a pen and inkstone and wrote all the colors, and cast lots. The one we pick will be the one." Everyone said it was wonderful.That is to say, he took a pair of pen, inkstone and flower paper.Xiangling recently learned poetry, and learned to write every day. When she saw a brush and inkstone, she couldn't draw, so she quickly got up and said, "I write".Everyone thought about it for a while, and got a dozen or so in total. After reading, Xiangling wrote them one by one, rolled them into lots, and threw them in a bottle.Tanchun ordered Ping'er to pick it up. Ping'er stirred it inward, picked one out with chopsticks, opened it, and there was a word "Shefu" written on it.Baochai said with a smile: "Take out the ancestor of the wine order... Shooting has existed since ancient times, but now it has been lost. It was compiled by later generations, and it is more difficult than all other orders. Half of them can't do it." , it’s better to destroy it, and pick another one that is both elegant and popular." Tanchun laughed and said, "If it is picked up, it will be destroyed again. Now pick another one, if it is both elegant and popular, let them go. Let’s do this." The attacker picked one up, but it was a "thumb war".Shi Xiangyun said with a smile: "This is simple and sharp, which suits my temper. I can't do this. If you shoot it, you will be depressed and depressed. I just punched it." Tanchun said: "Only if he makes random orders, sister Bao, hurry up." Fine him for one minute." Baochai didn't want to say anything, so he poured Xiangyun a cup.Tanchun said: "I'll have a cup. I'm the order officer, and I don't need to announce it. I just listen to my assignment." He ordered to take the order dice basin, "Throw it from Qinmei, and then throw it down. The two who are right. People shoot over." Baoqin throws a three, Xiuyan Baoyu and others are all wrong, until Xiangling throws a three.Baoqin said with a smile: "I have to grow spring indoors. If I talk about it outside, I have no idea." Tanchun said: "Naturally. If you miss three times, you will be punished with a cup. You shoot, and he shoots." Baoqin thought for a while Think, said the word "old".Xiangling was born in this order, so unexpectedly, there were no idioms connected with the word "old" in the room and seats.Xiangyun listened to it first, then looked around, and suddenly saw the words "Red Fragrance Garden" pasted on the door bucket, and knew that the Baoqin covered the word "Pu" in "I am not as good as the old garden".Seeing that Xiangling couldn't shoot, everyone beat drums and urged him, so they quietly pulled Xiangling and taught him to say the word "medicine".Daiyu saw it, and said, "Punish him quickly, and pass it on there privately." Everyone who coaxed knew it, and hurriedly fined him another cup, and Xiangyun, who hated him, knocked Daiyu's hand with chopsticks.So Xiang Ling was fined a cup.Next, Baochai and Tanchun have the right idea.Tanchun repeated the word "person".Baochai said with a smile, "This. The word "herringbone" is very vague." Tanchun said with a smile, "if you add a word, it will not be blurred twice." Then he said the word "window".When Baochai thought about it, seeing a chicken on the table, he shot him with the word "chicken window" and "chicken man", because he shot a word "埘".Knowing that he was shooting, Tanchun used the code of "chicken perches in the nest", the two laughed and drank a mouthful of the door cup each.Xiangyun couldn't wait, so he shouted "three" and "five" with Baoyu early, and started punching.Over there, Youshi and Yuanyang started barking "seven" and "eight" across the mat.Ping'er Xiren also made a pair of punches, only the bracelet on his wrist jingled.For a while, Xiangyun won Baoyu, Xiren won Ping'er, and Youshi won Yuanyang. The three of them were limited to wine noodles with wine bottom. , but also a sentence from the Shixian Book, which can be made into a sentence. The bottom of the wine should be the name of the fruit and vegetable related to personnel." After hearing this, everyone laughed and said: "Only his order is more nagging than others, which is interesting. " He urged Baoyu to speak quickly.Baoyu laughed and said, "Whoever said this, think about it later." Daiyu then said, "You drink for one more minute, and I will tell you for you." Flying alone, the wind is rushing across the river and the sky is mourning, but it is a wild goose with broken feet, which makes people cry all over the place. This is the guest of the swan goose.Everyone who said it laughed and said, "This string is a little bit interesting." Daiyu picked up another hazelnut, and said at the bottom of the wine, "Hazelnuts are not an anvil in the courtyard, so why are there thousands of households pounding clothes?"At the end of the order, mandarin ducks attacking people and so on are all saying a common saying, and they all have the word "longevity", so we can't repeat it.