Jinpingmei

Chapter 23 Gambling on the Chessboard and Pinger Losing Money

The word said: It is difficult to vent in my heart, and I am deeply grateful in secret.It may not be a mother's job, but it can be a sage.How can I tell you from the bottom of my heart?
Said that she didn't want a girl, but would like to be an official's concubine.He firmly hoped that I was sincere.Don't think about the storm, it's what he expected.

It is said that one day after the end of Latvia and spring comes back, and the new festival is just around the corner, Ximen is not at home to celebrate the festival, so Wu Yueniang went to Wu Dajinzi's house.At noon, Meng Yulou and Pan Jinlian played chess in Li Pinger's room.Yulou said, "What should we bet today?"

Jin Lian said: "Let's bet five silver coins on the host, three silver coins to buy Jinhua wine, and the other two coins to buy a pig's head, and teach Laiwang's wife to cook a pig's head for us to eat. He said he can cook a good pig's head, and only one piece of firewood is used. He'er, it's burnt to pieces."

Yulou said: "Big sister is not at home, but why care about it?"

It's normal to save a penny and send it to his house. "

After finishing speaking, the three of them played chess.After three games, Li Ping'er lost five dollars.Jin Lian sent Xiu Chun'er to call Lai Xing'er, handed him the silver, and taught him to buy a jar of Jinhua wine, a pig's head, and four hooves. It’s about to burn, take it to your third wife’s room and wait, we’ll go.”

Yulou said: "Sixth sister, teach him to burn it and take the box to eat here. Behind, Li Jiaoer and Sun Xue'e are watching, do you want him to invite him?"

Jinlian followed the words of Yulou.

After a while, Lai Xing'er bought wine and pig heads and sent them to the kitchen.Hui Lian is sitting with Yu Xiao on the stone platform at the back, playing with melon seeds.Lai Xing'er called him, "Sister Huilian, Wu Niang and San Niang are all over you, so that I bought wine, pig's head and even hooves, all of which are in the kitchen. I will teach you to cook them for him and send them to Liu Niang. to the room."

Hui Lian said: "I'm not free, I'm taking shoes with my mother. Just ask me to teach that burner, Baba will teach me how to cook by name?"

Lai Xing'er said, "It's up to you whether you burn it or not. I'll leave it to you. I have something to do."

Said, went out.Yu Xiao said: "Leave it alone and burn it for him. You know Wu Niang's boss, and he is making a fuss again."

Hui Lian laughed and said: "How did Wu Niang know that I can burn pig's heads, so I will be sent to you!"

So I went to the chef's stove, scooped up a pot of water, shaved and brushed the pig's head and hoof, and put the only long firewood in the stove, mixed it with a large bowl of oil sauce and fennel aniseed. Stop, buckle up and down Xiguzi.It took an hour to peel off the flesh of the roasted pig's head, and it was delicious and full of five flavors.Fill the big ice tray, even the ginger and garlic dish, and take it to Li Ping'er's room in front of him in a square box, and unscrew the Jinhua wine.Yulou picked them up neatly, leaving a large plate and a pot of Jinhua wine, and asked the girl to send them to the upper room to eat with Yueniang.The other three sat down and poured wine together.

In the middle of eating, Hui Lian came to her with a smile and said, "Girls, try this pig's head. Is it good today?"

Jin Lian said: "San Niang just praised you for your good skills! It was burnt and it was rotten."

Li Ping'er asked: "Really you only use one firewood?"

Huilian said: "To tell you the truth, you can't even burn a piece of firewood! If it's a piece of firewood, it will be burnt to the bone."

Yulou called Xiuchun: "You take a big one, sift one and eat it with your sister-in-law."

Li Ping'er hurriedly asked Xiu Chun to pour the wine, and he picked up a plate of pig's head meat and handed it to Hui Lian, saying: "You made it yourself, try it."

Hui Lian said: "The little one knows that women can't eat salty food, so I didn't add sauce to it, it's just a random thing. Next time I cook it again, I'll know."

Then he kowtowed three times, and just stood beside the table to have a drink.

When Yueniang comes to the house in the evening, all the women see Yueniang, and Xiaoyuxi will bring a pig's head to show to Yueniang.Yulou said with a smile, "Today we play chess, and the one who wins is Sister Li's pig's head, and I will keep it for my sister to eat."

Yue Niang said: "This is a bit uneven. Everyone wins the bet, and it's nothing if they lose one. Let's care about it: only when it's a big festival, our sisters will each take turns drinking a table of wine, called generals." Sister Yu is here, playing around at night, what’s the problem? It’s better than betting on the outcome, it’s hard to be alone. Am I right?”

Everyone said: "What my sister advocates is!"

Yueniang said: "On the fifth day of tomorrow, I'll be the one to start."

Li Jiaoer took the sixth day, Yulou took the seventh day, and Jinlian took the eighth day.Jin Lian said: "I am the only one who is cheap, and that day is my birthday wine, but I can kill two birds with one stone."

Asking Sun Xue'e, Sun Xue'e remained silent for a long time.Yueniang said: "Let's go with him, don't bother him anymore, teach Sister Li to keep up with him."

Yulou said: "The ninth day of the lunar new year is the sixth sister's birthday again. I'm afraid that Grandma Pan and his sister-in-law will come."

Yueniang said: "There's no time to be free on the ninth day, so I'll just teach Sister Li to move to the tenth day."

Everyone's plan has been decided.

Don't bother talking.First, on the fifth day of the lunar new year, Ximen Qing was not at home and went to a banquet at a neighboring house.Yueniang set up wine in the upper room, and Sister Yu sang, and invited all the sisters to drink happily for a day before they left.On the second day, Li Jiaoer was supposed to be next to Yulou and Jinlian, so there was no need to elaborate.After a while, after Jinlian's birthday, grandma Pan and sister-in-law Wu are all playing here.On the tenth day of the lunar new year, it's time for Li Ping'er to set up wine, so that Xiuchun can invite Xue'e to the back.He invited two replacements in a row, promised to come, but didn't care about coming.Yulou said: "I said he wouldn't come, and Sister Li just forced him to invite him. But he said to people: 'Every time you have money, you will eat ten rounds of wine. If you don't, let's go barefoot and trip donkey hoofs. .’ Like what he said, we’re all for nothing, treat the big sister like a donkey’s hooves!”

Yueniang said: "He's such a worthless peddler, don't bother with him, why ask him!"

So the wine was served, and everyone came to Li Ping'er's room in front to eat wine.Sister Yu played and sang nearby.At the moment, eight people, Mrs. Wu and Mrs. Ximen, were drinking.Because Ximenqing was not here, Yueniang told Yuxiao: "When your father comes home to drink, you just send him to eat."

Yu Xiao promised.

In the afternoon, when Ximen Qing came home, Yuxiao took off his clothes for him.Ximen Qing asked, "Where did mother go?"

Yuxiao replied, "We're all having wine with my eldest concubine and Grandma Pan in Liu Niang's room."

Ximen Qing asked, "What kind of wine are you eating?"

Yuxiao said, "It's Jinhua wine."

Ximen Qing said: "There is also the jar of jasmine wine that your second father gave you next year, open it and eat."

While teaching Yuxiao to open the jasmine wine, Ximen Qing tasted it and said, "It's just for your girls to eat."

Jiao Xiaoyu and Yuxiao carried it to Li Ping'er's room in front.Hui Lian was standing next to Yue Niang pouring wine, seeing Yuxiao bringing the wine, Hui Lian quickly came down to pick up the wine.Yu Xiao gave him a wink and squeezed his hand, and the woman knew what it meant.Yueniang asked Yuxiao: "Who asked you to bring the wine?"

Yuxiao said, "Father sent me here."

Yue Niang said: "How long has your father been here?"

Yuxiao said: "Father came home just now. Because he asked the girls to drink, he taught me to take this jar of jasmine wine to eat with the girls."

Yueniang asked: "If your father eats wine, put a table in the room, and if you see some dishes, send him to eat."

Yuxiao responded and went to the back.

This Huilian stood at the table for a while, and said, "I'll watch tea later, and eat with the girls."

Yueniang ordered: "Tell your sister, there is Lu'an tea in the house, let's eat a pot."

The wife walked to the back in a chasing tune, Yuxiao stood at the door of the main room, and pouted with him.The wife opened the curtain and came into Yueniang's room, only to see Ximen Qing sitting on a chair eating wine.Walking forward, she sat in his arms, and the two kissed and smacked their tongues together.The mother-in-law held his words in her hands, and fed him with wine on the table.He said: "Father, if you have fragrant tea, give me some more. The one you gave me the day before yesterday is gone. I have less money for my sister-in-law Xue, and you have some silver for me."

Ximen Qing said: "I still have one or two taels in the eggplant bag, you can take it."

talking.Ximen Qing wanted to untie his pants.The woman said: "Not good, I'm afraid people will come to see it."

Ximen Qing said: "If you don't go out today, let's have fun in the evening."

Hui Lian shook her head and said, "There's a salary-hungry secretary blocking the way at the back—Chai Zhong. We might as well stay with Wu Niang, Sesi's children."

So Yuxiao watched the wind at the door of the main room, and the two of them played together in the room.

Unexpectedly, Sun Xue'e heard someone laughing in the room from later on, only guessing that Yuxiao was joking with Ximen Qing in the room, but not thinking that Yuxiao was sitting in the corridor again, so she stood still.Yuxiao was afraid that he would go into the house, so she supported him and said, "Why don't you go when Liu Niang invites the girl?"

Xue'e sneered and said, "We are unlucky people, and we can't catch up with him on a fast horse. How can we accompany him to drink ten rounds of wine? My poor companion has no pants!"

Just as she was talking, she was coughed by Ximen Qing's room, and Xue'e went into the kitchen.

The jade flute opened the curtain happily, and the mother-in-law saw that there was no one, so she forked it out in two or three quick steps, and went to the back to watch tea.After a while, Xiaoyu came from behind and called: "Sister-in-law Huilian, why did mother say you didn't go to fetch tea?"

The woman said: "I have tea, let me bring some nuts."

After a while, Xiaoyu came to the front with the cup holder, and he carried the tea.Yueniang asked, "Why are we here for tea?"

Hui Lian said: "Father eats wine in the room, and the little one dare not go in. Wait for sister to fetch tea from the room and peel the nuts."

After everyone had tea, Hui Lian was at the banquet, standing leaning against the table, watching Yueniang and the others throwing dice, and pretending to raise her voice, "Mother, it's not the division of heaven and earth when you put the length on Chunliu? I won Wuniang."

He said again: "You Liu Niang, the dice are Jin Ping Feng's pair. I think San Niang's three matches are pure five, and it's only fourteen o'clock, so I lost."

Annoyed by Yuxiao, she said: "You daughter-in-law, we are here to throw dice and interrupt our tongues, what can you say?"

The wife was so ashamed that she couldn't stand up, she couldn't stand up, she blushed, and went down.It is exactly: whoever draws water from the West River is hard to wash away the shame of the present.

All the women here were drinking, and when it was time to light the lamps, Ximen Qing came in with the curtain lifted, and said with a smile, "You guys are delicious!"

Miss Wu jumped up and said, "Brother-in-law is here!"

Hastily let the seat sit with him.Yue Niang said: "You are just eating wine in the back, women and men, what are you doing here?"

Ximen Qing said, "Since Ye said, I'll go."

So she walked over to Jinlian, and Jinlian immediately followed.Ximen Qing was half drunk, pulled Jin Lian and said, "Little glib, I have something to tell you. I want to keep Hui Lian behind for the night, there is no room behind. See how you let him rest by your side All night?"

Jin Lian said: "I don't want to scold you, no, that sweaty mess! It's up to you to mess with him [into the sun], so coquettish, teach him to stay with me! I have nowhere to put him. I'll just stick to it If you don't, he won't tolerate Chunmei thieves. If you don't believe me, call Chunmei and ask him, if he agrees, I will let you."

Ximen Qing said: "Since your wife is unwilling, let's go! I will spend the night with him in Shanzidong. You tell the girl to cover the bed and light some fire. Otherwise, how can you deal with the cold?"

Jin Lian couldn't help laughing: "I don't want to scold you, thief slave whore, she is your mother? You are Wang Xiang, you are filial in the cold winter months, lying on the stone bed in ice."

Ximen Qing laughed and said, "It's your fault, don't taunt me. Forget it, let the girl make a fire."

Jin Lian said: "You go, I know."

That night when the crowd dispersed, Jin Lian ordered Qiu Ju to hide in the snow cave of Chunwu under the mountain with her blankets and fire in her arms.

Huilian sent Yueniang, Li Jiaoer, and Yulou to the door of Yimen behind, and said deliberately: "Mother, don't send the little ones, go ahead."

Yue Niang said: "Forget it, you can go to sleep in front."

The woman sent Yueniang inside, and stood at the head of Yimen for a while, but seeing no one, she went down to the bottom of the mountain.Exactly: King Mojiaoxiang looked away, and Wushan sent rain clouds.

This Song Huilian walked to the gate of the garden, and only said that Ximenqing hadn't come in, so she didn't knock on the door, she just covered it up.When I came to the cave of Cangchunwu, I saw Ximen Qingzao sitting there holding a candle.The mother-in-law went inside, but felt the air-conditioning invaded, and the couch was full of noise.So he took out two incense sticks from his sleeve, lit the lamp, and stuck them in the ground.Although there is a pot of charcoal fire in the ground, it is still shivering from the cold.The mother-in-law stretched out the lower bunk first on the bed, which was covered with a mink Zen clothes.Close the double doors, and the two go to bed.Ximen Qing took off his white silk Taoist robe, sat on the bed, took off the woman's trousers, hugged the woman in his arms, crossed his feet by his sides, and said those words.Two hugs, well done.Unexpectedly, Pan Jinlian found out that the two of them had entered Hong Kong, took off the crown in the room, moved lightly with lotus steps, and came quietly to eavesdrop.Go to the corner door, push open the door, then sneak in quietly.I'm not afraid that the moss will seep through the Lingbo, and the thorns will scratch the folds of the skirt, stealthily stealth, and stand and listen under the moon window in the Cangchunwu.After a long time, I saw that the lamps and candles were still bright inside, and the woman laughed and said: "Ice is thrown away in the cold store, and you old bastard who has suffered so much for your thief has no ability to find a place to walk in this icy hell!" Holding a rope in his mouth, he froze to death and pulled it out."

He said again: "It's cold, go to sleep, why do you just look at my feet? You've seen the one with small feet, it looks like I don't have a pair of uppers, so what's the matter with buying a pair of uppers for me? Watching others make shoes, I can't do enough!"

Ximen Qing said: "My son, it doesn't matter, I will buy you various shoe uppers for how much money tomorrow. Who knows that your feet are smaller than your Wuniang's feet!"

The woman said: "How can you compare him to him? I tried his shoes on a little yesterday, and I wore them with mine. I don't care about the size, it's just that the shape of the shoes is correct."

Jin Lian listened outside: "This slave whore! Wait for me to listen again, what else did he say?"

After listening to it for a long time, my wife asked Ximen Qing: "Your family's fifth Qiu Huxi, how long have you been married to him? Was it recruited by a woman, a second-married son?"

Ximen Qing said: "It's also a returning person."

The woman said: "The way of anger has been used to it for a long time! It turns out that he is also the one he likes, a dewy couple."

This Jinlian just didn't listen, but she was so angry that her arms became weak outside, and she didn't move her feet for a long time, and said: "If you teach this slave and whore to stay inside, he will eat us all!"

At that time, he would start scolding loudly, and he was afraid that Ximen Qing would have a bad temper and show off the face of a whore.Be patient with him, I'm afraid he will deny it tomorrow. "Come on! Leave a note and let him know that I will have a conversation with him tomorrow."

So he went to the corner door, pulled out a silver hairpin on his head, and closed the door, regretting going back to the house.Evening scene question.

In the early morning of the next day, the mother-in-law got up first, put on her clothes, and came out with her hair disheveled.Seeing that the corner door was not inserted, he was startled, and shook the door again. After shaking for a long time, he couldn't open it.Go to see Ximen Qing, Ximen Qing next door asked Yingchun to open for him.Because he saw the hairpin pinned to the door, he knew it was Jinlian's hairpin, so he knew that he had heard it in the evening.The woman was pregnant with ghosts, walked to the front, and was opening the door, only to see Ping An coming out of Dongjing, and she just smiled when she saw him.Hui Lian said: "It's the root of the prisoner, who is smiling at you?"

Ping An'er said: "Sister-in-law, are we also angry when we smile?"

Hui Lian said: "What is it that is laughing for nothing in the early morning?"

Pingan said: "I laugh at my sister-in-law who hasn't eaten for three days, and her eyes are blurred. I guess you didn't come home last night!"

After hearing this, the woman blushed and scolded: "The thief raised his mouth and tongue to see the devil's roots, I didn't sleep in the house that night? Why didn't I come home?"

Ping An said: "I saw my sister-in-law locked the door just now, how can I let it go?"

Hui Lian said: "I got up early and went to Wu Niang's room. I just came out. Where are you prisoner?"

Ping An said: "I heard Wu Niang teach you to pickle crabs, saying that you can chop good legs. Wu Niang told you to watch the dustpan seller at the door, saying that you can smack your tongue well."

The woman was in a hurry, picked up a latch, drove Ping'an'er around the yard and cursed: "The root of the sweat and evil prisoner, let's see if I can tell him tomorrow. I'm not afraid if I don't do you a favor, crazy What about some folds?"

Na Pingan said: "Yeah, sister-in-law, just take it easy. To whom? I know you went up to Gao Zhier."

That Huilian got anxious and just rushed to beat him.Unexpectedly, Dai'an came out of the stamp shop, grabbed the latch with one hand, and said, "Why did sister-in-law beat him?"

Hui Lian said: "You asked that bared-toothed, nonsense talker, it made my arms go limp!"

Then Ping An managed to run outside.Dai'an pushed him and said, "Sister-in-law, don't be so angry and annoyed, and go indoors to comb your hair."

The woman then took out three or four cents of silver from the purse at her waist, handed it to Dai'an and said, "If you're tired, take me a big bowl and boil two soups for me to eat, and put the soup in Chozi."

Dai'an said: "It doesn't matter, wait for me."

I took it with one hand.He quickly washed his face and scalded some juice for him.The woman let Dai'an eat a bowl, and he also ate a bowl. Just now, he combed his hair, locked the door, and went to the Yueniang's room at the back to have a nap, and then came to the Jinlian room.

Jinlian is combing her hair in front of the mirror.Huilian Xiaoyi'er, holding a mirror and handwashing water beside her, serves with affection.Jin Lian didn't even look at him.Huilian said: "Mother's sleeping shoes bound her feet, I rolled them up and put them away?"

Jin Lian said: "Leave it to him. You leave it alone and ask the girl to come in and collect it."

Then he called Qiu Ju: "You thief slave, where did you go?"

Huilian said, "Qiu Ju is sweeping the floor. Sister Chunmei is combing her hair there."

Jin Lian said: "Don't worry about him, just throw it away, and wait for them to clean up. The crooked hoofs and feet have all stained my sister-in-law's hands. You go to help your father, and your father needs you. Helping him is the only way to win his heart. We are all dewy couples, and we are married again. Only the sister-in-law is the one who will marry the future in a sedan chair, and is his real wife, Qiu Huxi."

After hearing this, the woman was talking about his real illness last night, so she knelt down on both knees and said, "Mother is the master of the young one. If the mother doesn't hold her hands high, the young one won't be able to stand up for a while. I didn't do it back then." Because of mother's kindness, the younger one also refuses to follow his father. It is the aunt behind, nothing wrong is just an outline. The younger one still has a lot of praise from his mother, so don't he dare to deceive his heart in front of his mother? Follow his mother to check and visit, the younger one has a word of deceit Heart, tomorrow will not be a good time to die, a boil will be born in a pore."

Jin Lian said: "It's not like that. I can't put people who are sandy in my eyes. Since the man wants you, why don't we fight? You are not allowed to play tricks in front of the man, just speak softly. You said you trampled us When you go down, you have to kick and jump in the middle, my sister, I tell you, just spit out your heart for a while!"

Hui Lian said: "Mother visits again, I don't dare to deceive my heart, I'm afraid my mother heard it wrong yesterday evening."

Jin Lian said: "Silly sister-in-law, I'm in a panic, what do you want? Let me tell you, ten wives can't buy a man's heart. Although your father has these wives at home, or invite someone outside He's a fan, come here to tell me a little bit, and tell me everything. Your aunt was out of breath with him at the time, why didn't you tell me when you came home? You are worse than him .”

The wife was speechless, stood in the room for a while, and came out.As soon as I arrived in the lane of Yimen, I bumped into Ximen Qing and said, "Hello, so you should tell others what people said to you yesterday. Today, I will give you a meal if I tell you what I said to you. Just put it in your heart, let it rot. Why tell people? You are a trough of water when you clean up. If you have something to say, I won’t tell you until tomorrow."

Ximen Qing said, "What? I don't know."

The woman took a look and went forward.

This woman has a good mouth, and she often stands in front of the door, shopping, chasing Fu's buddy, Fu Dalang, Chen Jingji, Uncle, and Ben Si, Lao Si.Because she hooked up with Ximen Qing, she became more flamboyant in front of people, and often quarreled with everyone without fear.Or call out for a while: "Fu Dalang, I beg you, watch over the fans for my head."

That buddy Fu was an old man, so he looked at the door for him in shock, came over and called him to stop, and asked him to come out and buy.Dai'an deliberately teased him, saying: "Sister-in-law, the morning of selling fans is over, you come out early, take the scale and weigh him well!"

The mother-in-law scolded: "Thief monkey, my fifth and sixth mothers asked me to buy powder for putting on. How do you say that you take two catties of rouge and three catties of powder on the scale and teach that whore to apply it again and again? Watch me go in and treat him Say or not?"

Dai'an said: "Yeah, sister-in-law, just scare me with Wu Niang!"

Once he called again: "Fourth Ben, let me tell you, there is a seller of plum blossoms and chrysanthemums at the door, I want to buy two pairs to wear."

Na Ben Si missed the deal, so he concentrated on looking at the seller for him and stopped him, asking him to come out to buy.The woman stood in the door on the second floor, opened the door to pick, and asked him for two pairs of emerald flowers and emerald greens, and two squares of purple silk flashing gold sweat scarves, which cost him seven and a half cents of silver.The woman took out half of the silver from her waist, and Yang and Bensi chiseled it out for him, and gave him seven cents and five cents.Ben Si was writing the account, so he dropped it and came over to hammer for him.Dai'an said, "Wait for me and my sister-in-law to chisel."

On the one hand, he took the silver in his hand, and didn't chisel it, just looked at it.The woman said: "Thief monkey, don't chisel, what are you just looking at? Didn't you hear the dog biting in the middle of the night? It's stolen money!"

Dai'an said: "I don't want to steal it. This silver is so familiar, it looks like it's in my father's silver bag. The day before yesterday, my father chiseled and sold the gold barbarian's silver in the lamp market, and half of it was left. It's this silver. I Remember to be true."

The woman said: "Thieves and prisoners, in the whole world, people are the same. How did father's money get into my hands?"

Dai'an laughed and said, "I know what kind of tent!"

The woman rushed to beat him.Dai'an chiseled off the silver for seven cents and five cents and gave it to the Huacui seller. He took the rest of the silver in his hand and did not go with him.The woman said: "The root of the thief! If you dare to take it, I will count you a hero!"

Dai'an said: "I won't take yours. You can buy some fruit with me for the rest."

The woman said: "Thief monkey, hand it over, I'll be with you."

Coax and Dai'an were handed to him, and he only took four or five cents of it with him, and stuffed the rest in his waist, and went straight in.

From then on, they often buy cut Huacui sweat towels and the like at the door for two prices, and even put melon seeds in four or five liters, and distribute them to the maids in each room and eat them all.The bead hoop on the head and the golden lantern pendant are very yellow.Underneath the clothes are red silk trousers and knee pads.He also has three or four fragrant tea and fragrant barrels on his big sleeves, and he carries them with him.Seeing that he spent two or three renminbi in one day, Ximen Qing secretly gave it to him, so I don't need to go into details about it.Ever since Jinlian found out about his tricks, this woman has only been in Jinlian's room every day, making love to him, having tea and water with him, doing shoe stitches, not taking him by force, not moving by force.Seriously behind Yueniang, she only makes face-to-face every day, and then comes to Jinlian.Play chess and cards with Jinlian and Ping'er every day, and form a team.Or when Ximen Qing came by for a while, Jinlian deliberately asked him to pour wine next to him, and taught him to sit and play together, just to make men like it.It's exactly: crazy willow catkins dance with the wind, and frivolous peach blossoms chase water.

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