Dream of the Red Mansion

It is said that Baoming told the little girl at the door that Baoyu's jade was available, and the little girl hurried back to tell Baoyu.After hearing this, all the people pushed Baoyu out to ask him, and they all listened in the corridor.Baoyu also felt at ease, so he went to the door and asked, "Where did you get it? Get it quickly." Baoming said, "You can't get it, and you have to entrust someone to protect it." Baoyu said, "Tell me quickly." How did I get it, so I can ask someone to take it." Baoming said: "I knew that Grandpa Lin was going to test the characters outside, so I followed. I heard that I was looking for it in the pawnshop, and I ran to him before he finished speaking. I went to a few pawnshops. I showed them, and one of them said they had it. I said let me know, that shop wanted tickets. I asked how much it was pawned, and he said that there were [-] yuan and [-] yuan. There was a man who pawned such a piece of jade for three hundred coins a while ago, and today another person took one piece of jade and pawned it for five hundred coins." Baoyu didn't wait to finish speaking, and said, "Hurry up and take three hundred and five hundred coins. Take it, let’s pick and see if it’s right.”

The attacker inside spat: "Second Master, don't pay attention to him. When I was young, I heard my brother often say that some people sell those little jades and pawn them if they have no money. I think they are in every pawnshop." Everyone was listening. Surprised, when the victim said it and thought about it, everyone laughed and said, "Call the second master in quickly, and ignore that stupid thing. Those jades he mentioned are not serious things."

Baoyu was smiling when he saw Xiuyan coming.It turned out that when Xiuyan went to Changcui nunnery and saw Miaoyu, she didn't have time to gossip, so she asked Miaoyu to help her spirit.Miaoyu sneered a few times, and said: "The reason why I associate with the girl is that the girl is not a snobbish person. Why did I hear the rumors there today, and came to pester me. Besides, I don't know what a shaman is." Will ignore.Xiuyan regretted coming here, knowing that his temper was like this, "I said it at the time, it's not good to go back in vain, and it's not good to confront him that he knows how to hold a ghost." She had to laugh and say about the relationship between life and death. After reading it again, seeing Miaoyu moving a little, she got up and bowed a few times.Miaoyu sighed: "Why do I need to marry for others? But since I came to Beijing, no one has known about it. Today you come to make an exception. I'm afraid you will be entangled in the future." Xiuyan said: "I can't bear it for a while, I know you must be merciful. It is the future. Others beg you, if you want to be with you, who dares to force you." Miaoyu smiled, asked the Taoist woman to burn incense, found a sand table in the box, wrote a talisman, and ordered Xiuyan to salute. Miaoyu supported the ji.After a while, I saw the fairy writing quickly:

Alas!Come without trace, go without trace, leaning against the ancient pines under the Qinggeng Peak.If you want to pursue, there are thousands of mountains, come into my door and meet with a smile.After finishing the book, I stopped.Xiuyan then asked He Xian, and Miaoyu said, "It is Guaixian who invited him." Xiuyan recorded it and asked Miaoyu for interpretation.Miaoyu said: "This is impossible, even I don't understand. Take it quickly, there are many smart people among them." Xiuyan had to come back.Entering the courtyard, everyone asked what was going on.Xiuyan didn't have time to elaborate, so she passed the recorded shaman's words to Li Wan.All the sisters and Baoyu competed to see it, but they all answered: "I can't find it if I look for it for a while, but I can't lose it if I lose it. I don't know when I don't look for it. But I don't know where Qinggeng Peak is?" Li Wan said: "This is it. Immortal secret words. Qinggeng Peak ran out from our house, who must be afraid of being found out, and put it under the mountain rock with pine trees. Where is the door?" Daiyu said, "I don't know who is inviting!" Xiuyan said, "Guaixian." Tanchun said, "If it's the door of the immortal's house, it's hard to get in."

Xiren was busy in his heart, so he looked for it on the ground, and he couldn't find it under any stone, but there was nothing.Back in the courtyard, Baoyu didn't ask if there was any, but just smirked.Sheyue said anxiously: "Little ancestor! Where did you lose it? It shows that we are suffering in the open." Baoyu said with a smile: "I said I lost it outside, but you don't follow me. You ask me now, I know What!" Li Wan Tanchun said, "It's already the third watch since I got up early today. You see, sister Lin can't handle it anymore, so they went separately. We should take a rest too, and we will meet again tomorrow. Let's make trouble." Saying that, everyone dispersed.Baoyu even falls asleep.Poor Xiren waited to cry once, think about it once, and had no sleep all night.Let's not mention it for now.

Let's say that Daiyu went back first, thinking of Jinshi's old words, she liked herself, and said in her heart: "The words of monks and Taoists are really unbelievable. If gold and jade are destined, how can Baoyu lose this jade? Or because of me, I don’t know how to break up their gold and jade.” After thinking for a long time, I felt more at ease, and ignored the fatigue of the day, and started to read the book again.Zicuckoo felt tired and urged Daiyu to sleep.Although Daiyu lay down, she thought of the Begonia flower again, and said, "This piece of jade was originally brought from the womb. It is an extraordinary thing, and it has something to do with it. If it is a good thing for the flower owner, shouldn't this jade be lost?" It seems that the blooming of this flower is ominous, could it be that something bad happened to him?" Unknowingly, I felt sad again.Turning to the happy event again, the flower seems to be blooming, and the jade seems to be lost. So sad and happy, I don't fall asleep until I think of the fifth watch.

The next day, Mrs. Wang sent someone to the pawnshop to inquire, and Sister Feng tried to find it secretly.After a few days of trouble, there was no whereabouts.I'm also happy that Jia's mother and Jia Zheng are unknown.Xiren and the others were in fear every day, and Baoyu didn't go to school for several days, but was just dazed, silent, and without a thought.Mrs. Wang only knew that he got up because of the loss of jade, and she didn't care too much.I was wondering that day, when I saw Jia Lian coming in to say hello, he smiled and said, "Today, I heard that Jia Yucun, a military plane, sent someone to tell the second master that my uncle was promoted to a cabinet bachelor and came to Beijing by order. Xuanma on the tenth. There are three hundred miles of papers to go. I think my uncle and grandfather will be here in more than half a month. My nephew will come back and forth, and my wife knows."

When Mrs. Wang heard about it, she was very happy.Just thinking that my mother's family is small, Aunt Xue's family has declined again, and my brother is working outside, so I can't take care of her.Today, I suddenly heard that my brothers came back to Beijing, the glory of the Wang family, and Baoyu will be relied on in the future, so I let go of the lost jade.I look forward to my brothers coming to Beijing every day.Suddenly one day, Jia Zheng came in, his face was full of tears, and he said out of breath, "Go and tell the old lady, and enter the palace immediately. You don't need many people, you are the one who waits on you. Because the empress suddenly fell ill, the eunuch is waiting outside now. He said that the Tai Hospital has announced that there is phlegm, and it cannot be cured." Mrs. Wang burst into tears when she heard about it.Jia Zheng said: "This is not the time to cry. Hurry up and ask the old lady. Speak softly and don't frighten the old man." As Jia Zheng said, he came out and ordered his family to serve him.Mrs. Wang withdrew her tears and went to invite Jia's mother. She only said that Concubine Yuan was ill, so she went in to greet her.Jia Mu recited Buddha and said, "Why are you sick again! I was so scared last time, and then I got it wrong. This time I'd rather be wrong again." Mrs. Wang replied, urging Yuanyang to unpack the clothes and dress them up. .Mrs. Wang hurried back to her room, got dressed and came to serve her.Go out of the hall and get on the sedan chair to enter the palace.No problem.

In addition, after Yuanchun chose Fengzao Palace, the holy relatives were solemn and well-fed, so it was laborious to move.Daily life fatigue, occasional phlegm disease.Because I went back to the palace for a banquet the day before yesterday, I was occasionally caught in the cold, which brought back old illnesses.Unexpectedly, this time it was very serious, and the phlegm was blocked, and the limbs were extremely cold.On the one hand, the imperial physician was called for treatment.Unexpectedly, if the decoction does not enter, even the customs-clearing medicine will not be effective.The internal officials are worried, so please arrange the funeral in advance.So a decree was ordered to visit Jia's pepper room.Mrs. Jia Muwang entered the palace according to the order. Seeing that the concubine Yuan was stuffed with phlegm and saliva, she could not speak.Mother Jia came forward to greet her and play some comforting words.When I was young, Jia Zheng and other titles were promoted, and the palace concubine passed the news, and the concubine Yuan couldn't look at her, and her face gradually changed.The eunuchs in the inner palace are going to play the news, and they are afraid to send all the concubines to watch. It is not convenient for the in-laws of the pepper house to stay for a long time, so please serve them in the outer palace.Mrs. Jia Muwang left as much as she could, but she had no choice but to come down due to the national system. She didn't dare to cry, but felt sad in her heart.There is a letter from the officials in the court.Not long after, the eunuch came out and passed on to Qin Tianjian.Jia's mother knew it was not good, so she didn't dare to move.After a while, the little eunuch came out and said: "Mrs. Jia passed away." 43 years old.Mother Jia got up sadly, so she had to get out of the palace and go home in a sedan chair.Jia Zheng and others have also been trusted, and they are sad all the way.At home, Mrs. Xing, Li Wan, Sister Feng, Baoyu and others went out of the hall to greet Jia's mother and Mrs. Jia Zhengwang, and everyone wept.No problem.

Get up early the next day, and those who have a grade, according to the funeral ceremony of the imperial concubine, please come in and cry.Jia Zheng is also in the Ministry of Industry. Although he handles the affairs according to the ceremonial notes, it is inevitable that he will have to deal with him in the class, and his colleagues will ask him for advice, so he is busier at both ends.But the concubine Yuan didn't come out, but her posthumous title was "virtuous and noble concubine".This is the royal system, so there is no need to repeat it.It's just that the men and women in Jia's mansion go to the palace every day, and they are extremely busy.Fortunately, Sister Feng's health has improved recently, and she has to come out to take care of family affairs, and she has to prepare Prince Teng to go to Beijing to welcome the wind and congratulate her.Sister Feng's brother Wang Ren came to Beijing with his family when he knew that his uncle had joined the cabinet.Sister Feng likes it in her heart, so she has some heart problems, and she puts away these people from her natal family, so she feels better than before.

When Mrs. Wang saw that Sister Feng was doing business as usual, she unloaded half of her burden, and saw her brother come to Beijing. She was at ease and felt calmer.Only Baoyu was originally a jobless person who didn't study. Modern Confucianism knew that there was something wrong with his family and didn't care about him. Jia Zheng was busy, so naturally he didn't have time to check him.Thinking that Baoyu would take this opportunity to have fun with his sisters every day. Unexpectedly, since he lost his jade, he walked around all day lazily and spoke confusedly.And when Jia's mother came back from the house, someone told him to go to pay her respects, so she went, but no one called him, and he didn't move.Xiren and others were pregnant with ghosts, but they didn't dare to provoke him, for fear that he would get angry.Tea and rice are served in front of you every day, and you don't want to come if you don't come.Xiren looked at this scene not as angry, but as sick.Xiren stealthily went to the Xiaoxiang Pavilion and told Zijuan, "Second master is doing this, please enlighten him." Although Zijuan told Daiyu immediately, it was only because Daiyu thought that she must be the one in charge of the marriage. Seeing him now, I feel embarrassed: "If he comes, we were together when we were young, so it's hard to ignore him. If I say I go to him, I definitely can't." So Daiyu refused to come.Xiren went to tell Tanchun secretly.But Tanchun knew in his heart that the begonias were blooming strangely, and the loss of "Baoyu" was even more strange. After Yuanfei's sister passed away one after another, his family was in bad luck and he was depressed every day, so he had the heart to persuade Baoyu.Kuang brothers and sisters are different from men to women, so I have to come here once or twice.Baoyu is lazy in the end, so he doesn't come here very often.

Baochai also knows that she has lost her jade.Because Aunt Xue accepted Baoyu's marriage that day, she told Baochai when she went back.Aunt Xue also said: "Although your aunt said it, I haven't agreed yet, and said to wait for your brother to come back to make a decision. Are you willing?" Baochai said to her mother indifferently: "Mom said that is wrong. Girl My parents are in charge of my son’s family affairs. Now that my father is gone, my mother should be in charge, otherwise I would ask my brother. How can I ask me?” So Aunt Xue cherished him even more, saying that although he was pampered since childhood, he also loved him. He was born chaste and quiet, so he didn't mention Baoyu in front of him.Since Baochai heard this, she naturally didn't mention the word "Baoyu".Now even though I heard that the jade was lost, I was very surprised and suspicious, so it was hard to ask, so I had to listen to what others said, but it seemed that it had nothing to do with me.Only Aunt Xue sent the girl over several times to ask for letters.Because of his own son Xue Pan's anxiety, he only waited for his brother to come to Beijing so that he could be exonerated. He also knew that the concubine Yuan had passed away. The matter was put aside.It's just a pain for Xiren. Although Baoyu humbly waits and comforts him, Baoyu doesn't understand, and Xiren is only secretly anxious.

A few days later, Concubine Yuan stopped at the mourning temple, and Mother Jia went to send the funeral for a few days.Unexpectedly, Baoyu stays like a day, without fever or pain, but doesn't eat like eating, doesn't sleep like sleeping, and even has no clue when talking.The Xiren musk moon panicked and went back to Sister Feng several times.Sister Feng came over from time to time. At first she said that she couldn't find Yu to be angry, but now seeing him in a state of despair, she could only ask a doctor for treatment every day.After taking several doses of the decoction, it only added to the disease, but did not reduce it.When she asked him where he felt uncomfortable, Baoyu didn't say anything.Until the concubine Yuan's affairs were over, Jia's mother missed Baoyu and went to the garden to see her in person.Mrs. Wang also came with her.Xiren and so on hurriedly asked Baoyu to pick him up and pay his respects.Although Baoyu was sick, he got up and acted every day. Today he asked him to pick up Jiamu, but he still said hello, but Xiren was there to help and advise.When Jia Mu looked at it, she said, "My son, I forgive you for being sick, so I came to see you. You look the same today, and I feel relieved." Mrs. Wang is naturally relieved.But Baoyu didn't answer, just smiled.Jia Mu waited in the room and sat down, asked him what he said, and the attacker taught him something, and he said something, which was very different from usual, just like a fool.The more Jia Mu looked, the more doubtful she became, so she said: "When I came in to see, I didn't see any illness. Now I take a closer look, and the illness is really not serious. It looks like a lost mind. What happened?" The madam can't hide the truth, and seeing the pitiful look of the attacker, she had to follow Baoyu's previous words and quietly told the story of losing this piece of jade when she went to the Nan'an Palace to listen to the opera.I was also very hesitant, afraid that Jia Mu would be anxious, and said: "Now people are looking around, asking for signs and divinations, and they all say to look for them in pawnshops. They must be found." After hearing this, Jia Mu stood up anxiously, crying DC, said: "How can this piece of jade be lost! You are so ignorant, don't tell me the master is also willing to let go!" Mrs. Wang knew that Jiamu was angry, and asked Xiren to kneel down, and said with a low face "The daughter-in-law didn't dare to return because she was afraid that the old lady would be anxious and the master would be angry." Jia Mu coughed, "This is Baoyu's lifeblood. He lost his soul because he lost it. It's okay! What's the matter? Everyone in Yuman City knows that whoever picks it up will ask you to find it! Ask someone to please the master quickly, and I will tell him."

At that time, Mrs. Wang was so frightened that she attacked others and all begged: "The old lady is so angry, it will be even worse when she comes back. Now that Baoyu is ill, let us do our best to find it." Jia Mu said: "You I'm afraid that the master will be angry, and I'm here." He asked Musk Moon's successor to invite him, and a message came in, saying, "The master has gone to thank you." Jia Mu said, "It's okay if you don't need him. Just say what I said, For the time being, there is no need to punish the servants, so I asked Lian'er to write a reward and hang it in the place I passed the day before yesterday. I said that if someone picked it up and sent it, I would like to give 1 taels of silver. Give 5000 taels of silver. If you really have it, don’t be stingy with the silver. If you look for it like this, you will find it if you have to. If you rely on a few people in our family to look for it, you will look for it for a lifetime, and you won’t be able to get it.” Mrs. Wang did not dare to speak out.Jia's mother sent a message to Jia Lian, telling him to go quickly.Then Jia Mu called people: "Move all the things Baoyu uses to me, and only send Xiren Qiuwen to follow, and the rest stay in the garden to look after the house." Baoyu listened, but finally said nothing, just smirked.

Jiamu got up with Baoyu, and Xiren and others helped her out of the garden.Going back to my room, I asked Mrs. Wang to sit down and watched the people tidy up the inner room. Then she said to Mrs. Wang: "Do you know what I mean? There are few people in the garden for me, and the flowers and trees in Yihong courtyard suddenly withered. It suddenly opened, a little strange. A piece of jade in my head can ward off evil spirits. Now that the jade is lost, I am afraid that evil spirits will easily invade, so I brought him here to live with him. I don’t need to ask him to go out these few days. The doctor is here. Look." When Mrs. Wang heard about it, she said, "Of course the old lady thinks so. Now Baoyu lives with the old lady. The old lady is very lucky, and she can suppress everything." Jia Mu said, "What kind of luck, But my room is cleaner, and there are many scriptures, so I can meditate and concentrate. Ask Baoyu if he is okay?" When Baoyu asked, he just laughed.The attacker asked him to say "yes", and Baoyu said "yes".Mrs. Wang shed tears when she saw such a scene. She dared not speak out with Jia Mu.Knowing that Mrs. Wang was in a hurry, Jia Mu said, "Go back, I will mediate him here. When the master comes back in the evening, tell him not to see me, just not to speak." After Mrs. Wang left, Jia Mu asked Yuanyang to find some peace of mind. The medicine of the soul is taken according to the prescription.No problem.

Let's say Jia Zheng went home that night, and in the car he heard Master Dao'er say, "It's easy for people to get rich." The man asked, "How do you know that?" The man said again, "I heard something was lost in Rong's mansion today." My brother's jade is pasted on a poster with the size, style and color of the jade written on it, saying that if someone picks it up and sends it to him, he will give 1 taels of silver, and the sender will give back [-]." Although Jia Zheng didn't hear it. Surprised at being so real, he hurried back and asked the person at the door to ask about it.The man at the door reported: "I don't know about the servants. At noon today, the second master of Lian heard the old lady's words and asked people to post posts." Jia Zheng then sighed and said, "The family should decline." He was born and raised by such a wicked person! When he was first raised, there were rumors all over the street, but after more than ten years, it got better, and now he is looking for jade in a big way, what's the reason!" Saying that, he hurriedly walked inside Go ask Mrs. Wang.Mrs. Wang told me everything.Jia Zhengzhi was the old lady's idea, and he didn't dare to disobey him, so he only complained about Mrs. Wang.He came out again and told the old lady to reveal the post behind his back.Unexpectedly, those idlers have already exposed it.

After a while, someone came to the gate of Rongfu and said that he would send jade.When the people in the family heard it, they liked it very much, so they said, "Bring it, I'll take it back for you." The man took out the reward from his pocket and pointed it to the doorman, "Isn't this a post from your house? Write it down." Ming sent jade to give 1 taels of silver. Second grandpa, you see me as poor now, and I get silver when I come back, and I will be a rich man. Don’t treat me like this.” Hearing his words at the door, he said hard "Show me a little, so I can go back for you." At first the man refused, but after hearing what he said was reasonable, he took out the jade, raised it in his palm and said, "Is this true? "All the family members were serving abroad, and they only knew that there was jade, which is not common. They only saw the appearance of this jade today.He ran inside in a hurry, as if grabbing the headlines.Jia Zheng and Jia Amnesty went out that day, and only Jia Lian was at home.When everyone returned to the Ming Dynasty, Jia Lian asked carefully whether it was true or not.The person on the door said: "I have seen it with my own eyes, but I don't give it to the slave. If I want to see the master, I will pay silver with one hand and jade with the other hand."Put your palms together and recite Buddha's name happily.Jia's mother did not change her words, and said repeatedly: "Quickly ask Lian'er to invite that man to sit down in the study, and take the jade to have a look, even if you give him silver." Jia Lian followed her words and invited the man to come in and treat him as a guest, Thank you kindly: "I want to borrow this jade to send it in. I saw it, and the thank you silver is not short." The man had to send a red silk bag over.Jia Lian opened it and saw that it wasn't that piece of crystal clear jade.Jia Liansu didn't think about it in the past, but she wanted to read it today. After reading it for a long time, she seemed to recognize the words on it, such as "eliminating evil spirits" and other words.When Jia Lian saw it, he was overjoyed, so he asked his family to wait on him, and hurriedly sent him to Mrs. Jia Muwang for recognition.

This meeting shocked the whole family, and they all waited to see it.When Sister Feng saw Jia Lian coming in, she snatched it away. She didn't dare to look at it first, and sent it to Jia Mu.Jia Lian laughed and said, "You don't ask me to contribute to such a small matter." When Jia Mu opened it, she saw that the jade was darker than before.While rubbing, Yuanyang took up the glasses, put them on and looked at them, and said, "strange, this piece of jade is real. How come the precious color is gone?" Mrs. Wang looked at it for a while, but she couldn't recognize it. When she came out, she asked Sister Feng to come and see.Sister Feng looked at it and said: "The elephant is the opposite, but the color is not quite right. Why don't you ask Brother Bao to see it for yourself."

Xiren also saw that it might not be that piece, but he was so full of anticipation that he didn't dare to say that it didn't look like it.So Sister Feng took it from Jia's mother and showed it to Baoyu with Xiren.At this time, Baoyu was falling asleep before waking up.Sister Feng told her, "You have your jade." Baoyu was sleepy and didn't look at it in his hand, so he threw it on the ground and said, "You're here to coax me again." He just sneered.Sister Feng picked it up quickly and said, "That's strange, how come you knew it without looking at it." Baoyu didn't answer, just laughed.Mrs. Wang also came into the room. Seeing him like this, she said: "It goes without saying. His jade was originally a strange thing brought from the womb. Naturally, he has a reason. I think this must be someone who saw Tie'er and did the same." Yes." At this moment, everyone suddenly realized.When Jia Lian heard this in the outer room, he said, "If it's not, quickly bring it to me and ask him. He dares to fool around with such a thing."

Jia's mother stopped and said, "Lian'er, take it to him and tell him to go. That's what a poor man can't do. So when he saw something like this in our family, he thought about making some money. Yes. Now I spent money for nothing to get this thing, and let us recognize it again. According to me, don’t embarrass him, return this jade to him, say that it is not ours, and give him a few taels of silver. People outside know , I am willing to send the letter if I have it. If it is difficult for this person, it will be true, and they will not dare to take it." Jia Lian agreed to go out.The man was still waiting. He hadn't seen anyone for a long time. He was feeling weak there when Jia Lian came out angrily.I don't know what to do, I will break it down next time.