Red Mansion: Bastards rule the roost

Chapter 283 Sadness and Joy 1 (Additional update Happy New Year’s Day)

"Greetings to uncle." The girls waiting at the door of Qingtang's hut all bowed in unison.

"Brother Cong is here." Everyone came out of the room to welcome him.

"Sisters, I have caught this kid. How can I be the host and come last? I will be severely punished with alcohol later." Sister Feng said with a smile.

Everyone agreed with a smile and let him in.

"Sorry, sorry, I fell asleep." Jia Cong smiled and cupped his hands, beckoning everyone to sit down.

Jia Cong, Baochai, Daiyu, Wanyanwei, Xiangyun, Jia Huan and Baoyu are at the same table.

Wang Xifeng, Li Wan, Sanchun and others were at the same table.

Jia Huan quietly pulled Jia Cong's sleeve and whispered: "Third brother, I live alone outside and no one is naughty to me. How about you go tell Sister-in-law Feng and let me live in the garden too?" "

Jia Cong smiled and said: "What's so difficult about this? Is your mother willing?"

"I'm so old, will she care about me forever? I don't want to live with her." Jia Huan said.

Jia Cong thought for a while and realized that Aunt Zhao really didn't know how to teach her children, so it would be better to save Jia Huan from being poisoned, and then said: "You can live in here if you want. Let me see if you can do a set of boxing first."

Jia Huan hurriedly got up and performed a set of punches on the ground. As expected, he was very vigorous and his muscles and bones were strong. It was obvious that he had worked hard in the past three years, and everyone clapped and applauded.

Jia Cong smiled and said: "Well, just find a place to live by yourself, but don't neglect studying and practicing martial arts, otherwise you will reap the rewards."

"Yes, yes, third brother, don't worry, I understand." Jia Huan cupped his hands and smiled, glancing at Baoyu with a proud look, don't think that you are the only one who can live in.

Suddenly, Sister Feng ordered the banquet to begin, and several opera singers came to sing.

Jia Cong smiled and said, "Are you so naughty in the garden?"

Wanyanwei tilted her head, thought for a moment, and said, "So naughty. It's a pity that I can't ride a horse and shoot arrows."

"Hey, girl Wanyan has such abilities. She is actually a female general. She is a good match for Brother Cong." Sister Feng said with a smile after hearing this.

Baochai covered her mouth and said with a smile: "Sister Feng, please stop talking. This afternoon, I and I were frightened. Sister Wanyan just whistled like this, and such a big white eagle flew from the sky, with steel claws and iron claws." With a swish of his beak, he caught the big goose in my sister-in-law’s yard, it was so powerful.”

Jia Cong smiled and said: "That's Haidongqing, called Xiaoxue. Not to mention chickens, ducks and geese, even wild wolves and yellow sheep can be caught. Sister-in-law, I think the little things you raise in your yard can't stand it. .”

Li Wan smiled hurriedly and waved his hand: "I have told Sister-in-law Liu in the kitchen to take all the chickens and ducks from my place tomorrow. I don't dare to raise any more. If it attracts eagles and hurts people, that's not so naughty. of."

Wanyan Wen hurriedly said: "Sister-in-law, don't worry, Xiaoxue is very well-behaved and won't hurt anyone unless someone wants to hurt it."

Daiyu pursed her lips and smiled and said, "Those two weird-looking dogs are quite powerful. They almost tore Baoyu's coat."

Baoyu smiled bitterly and said, "Next time I don't have an acquaintance to lead the way, I won't dare to come here again."

Jia Cong smiled and said: "Those are thin prairie dogs. The Tatars raise many of them. They are fierce, brave, loyal and reliable. They are the best for guarding homes and homes. I brought dozens of them back this time in case there was a thief in the house tomorrow. You will know.”

Daiyu rolled her eyes at him, "You are the biggest thief. How can there be a thief in the family?"

Jia Cong chuckled and said, "I am a thief who steals hearts."

Daiyu's face turned red, her eyes turned wild, and she glanced at him.

Baoyu quietly felt sad on the side and could only listen to the little actors singing songs to comfort themselves.

After the song ended, everyone applauded.

Jia Cong looked confused and secretly thought that Kun Opera was not something a rough guy like him could appreciate. He whispered, "Sister Bao, what are you singing? I didn't understand a word of it."

Baochai lowered his head and smiled and said: "This is the song Zaoluo Pao from "The Dream". It turns out that the colorful flowers are blooming all over the place, but like this, they are all ruined by the ruins of the well..."

Daiyu smiled and said: "I don't know this, but he is still the most talented person in the world."

Jia Cong smiled bitterly and said, "Tell them to stop singing. It makes my head hurt." Baochai pursed her lips and winked at Sister Feng, and ordered the young actors to go down to eat and rest.

Jia Huan also nodded, taking it seriously, and said: "Yes, yes, what's good to hear? It's not as good as the third brother's singing. Come and let's do some boxing."

Baoyu glanced at Jia Huan angrily and said, "This is my daughter's house, so we should have a more elegant drinking ceremony."

Tanchun smiled and said: "Second brother, you have many ideas. What order do you want to give?"

Baoyu finally found some sense of presence and said with a smile: "I will make a new order that will be interesting and that you have never heard of."

Everyone was curious and asked him to speak quickly.

Jia Cong was most afraid of the drinking orders of these intellectuals, but it was difficult to convince the public, so he had to listen.

Baoyu picked up the big cup, drank a glass first, and said: "The wine order is to say the four words sadness, sorrow, joy, and joy, and also to say 'daughter', and to indicate the reason for these four words. After that, let's drink. cup.

A fresh and current tune should be sung over the wine; the bottom of the wine should be something like the wind on the table, or ancient poetry, old couplets, the Four Books, the Five Classics, or idioms. "

Xiangyun, Tanchun and others all laughed and said, "This is quite new, but we don't know how to sing."

With the current trend being like this, men singing can be said to be elegant and suave. Women who sing are all prostitutes, actors, and lowly business people. How can these noble ladies go to sing and commit themselves to being lowly?

Baoyu smiled and said, "You just talk about the drinking orders. When you want to sing, just let the little opera perform it for you."

Everyone said hello.

Baochai and Daiyu looked at Jia Cong and smiled without saying a word. They were full of books and were not afraid of any drinking order except that Jia Cong would make a fool of himself.

Sister Feng was the first to get up and run: "I don't know how to do all your fancy drinking tricks, don't count me out."

Li Wan hurriedly pulled her to sit down and said, "What are you afraid of? You are still the famous Mistress Lian, so you are afraid of a small drinking order. If you make a mistake, you will be fined a few drinks, and you will be drunk to death! You are in a mess now. Order, I will first punish you by ten seas, which one do you choose?"

Sister Feng had to sit down.

Then I heard Baoyu say first: "My daughter is sad, her youth has been spent in the empty boudoir. My daughter is sad, she regrets teaching her husband to find a prince. My daughter is happy, the color of her morning makeup is beautiful in the mirror. My daughter is happy, her spring shirt is thin on the swing."

Everyone said: "That makes sense."

Just listen to Baoyu pick up the chopsticks, tap the rim of the bowl, and sing acapella: "Throwing red beans with endless tears of lovesickness..."

After singing, everyone cheered in unison.

Jia Cong also smiled and clapped. The song sounded familiar to him, with a good melody and good lyrics. Baoyu actually had some talent for singing.

Baoyu drank from the door cup, picked up a piece of pear, and said: "The rain hits the pear blossoms and the door is closed." That's it.

Everyone cheered, then looked at Jia Cong and said with a smile, "This time it's the master's turn."

Jia Cong hadn't thought about it yet and hurriedly said, "Sister Bao, please tell me first. I haven't brought my piano over yet."

After hearing what Baoyu said just now, he felt that this order was not too difficult. The first four sentences could be said casually, as long as they rhymed, and there was no need to memorize poems, as long as they made sense. Singing was a piece of cake, and only the last sentence of the poem had to be Things at the banquet also need to be considered.

"That makes sense." Everyone nodded and asked Baochai to speak again.

Baochai was pushed out by Jia Cong to hold the vat. She rolled her eyes at him, thought for a while and said: "My daughter is sad because we have been separated for three years. My daughter is sad because we have been separated for three years. My daughter is sad because we were old before we were together and now we are old now. My daughter is happy because I see the flowers on Kunlun Mountain." At that time, my daughter was happy, and there were visitors wherever the white clouds came from."

"Good!" Everyone praised, Baochai's order was much better than Baoyu's, every sentence rhymed, the meaning was deeper, and the artistic conception was higher.

Daiyu rolled her eyes at him: "What did you agree with?"

Jia Cong smiled, how could he tell.

(End of this chapter)