Jinpingmei

Chapter 25

The word says: kick off the swing, get up and straighten your slender hands.The dew is thick and the flowers are thin, and the sweat is light and the clothes are transparent.

Seeing guests come in, the socks are knocked out and the gold hairpin slips away.He walked away in shame, leaned on the door and looked back, but sniffed the green plum.

It is said that the Lantern Festival has passed, and the Ching Ming Festival is coming soon.Ximen Qing responded to the earl's early invitation, saying that Sun was a widow and invited him to play in the suburbs.

First, a swing was set up in Wu Yueniang's garden.Seeing that Ximenqing was not at home this day, he led all the sisters to play games in order to relieve the spring sleepiness.First, Yueniang fought with Meng Yulou, and then came down to teach Li Jiaoer and Pan Jinlian how to fight.Li Jiao'er said that she was too heavy to fight, but she taught Li Ping'er and Jin Lian to fight.After hitting once, Yulou called: "Sixth sister, come here, I will play with you on the swing."

Command: "Don't laugh."

At present, the two jade hands are holding the fixed colored rope, and stand on the drawing board.Yueniang taught Huilian and Chunmei to see each other off.It's exactly: red powder faces red powder noodles, jade crisp shoulder to shoulder.Two pairs of jade wrists are pulled back and forth, and the four golden lotuses are upside down.

The golden lotus laughed together on it.Yue Niang said: "Sixth Sister, it doesn't matter if you laugh on the top, I'm afraid I slipped and fell for a while, it's not a joke."

As he said that, he didn't want the drawing board to be slippery, and the high-soled shoes were not secure. He only heard the sound of surfing and wiped the golden lotus off.Yue Niang said: "I said Sixth Sister didn't laugh well, she just fell down."

Looking at Li Jiaoer, everyone said: "You shouldn't laugh when playing on a swing. If you laugh too much, your legs must be weak and you will fall off. When we were daughters at home, there was a swing in the garden of the Zhoutai official's house next door. It was also three On the Lunar New Year's Day, one day, Miss Zhou of his family and three or four girls like me were playing on the swing, and they couldn't laugh like this. They slid Miss Zhou off, rode on the drawing board, and grabbed their bodies. With others, if you are told that you are not a daughter, Hugh will come home, and you must avoid laughing when playing on the swing from now on."

Jin Lian said: "Meng San'er is not doing well, wait for me and Sister Li to play on the swing."

Yue Niang said: "You two beat carefully."

But teach Yuxiao and Chunmei to push.When I was waiting to play, I saw Chen Jingji coming from outside and said, "You play on the swing here every time."

Yue Niang said: "Brother-in-law came just in time, and came to see off the children for your two mothers. Every girl has little strength."

The old monk Jingji didn't hit the bell - there was a sound, so he moved forward and lifted his clothes, and said: "Wait for me to send the two ladies off."

First took the golden lotus skirt, and said: "Wu Niang stay in jail, and my son will be sent off."

The swing flew in mid-air, like a flying fairy.Li Ping'er saw that the swing was getting up, so he yelled strangely: "It's not good, brother-in-law, you also come to see me off."

Jingji said: "Your old man is impatient and waits for me to send the future away slowly. He yelled here, yelled there, it made my son panic."

So he lifted up Li Ping'er's skirt, exposing his red undershirt, and pushed it.Li Ping'er said: "Brother-in-law, take your time! My legs are weak!"

Jingji said: "Your old man can't eat too much wine."

Jin Lian said again: "Sister Li, you have wrapped up my skirt again."

The two hit halfway through the middle and both came down.But it was Chunmei and Sister Ximen who fought once.Then, teach Yuxiao and Huilian to play on the swing.This Huilian holds a colored rope in her hand, she stands upright, her feet rest on the lower drawing board, and she doesn't need to be pushed by anyone. The swing flies in the clouds for a long time, and then suddenly flies down, but it looks like a flying fairy, which is really lovely. like.When Yueniang saw it, she said to Yulou and Li Ping'er, "Look at my wife, he can beat you."

It's not a problem for everyone in Yueniang to play on the swing here.

The words are divided into two ends.But when Wang'er came back from Hangzhou to weave Taishi Cai's birthday clothes, he took many pack boxes and cages on board, and came home first.Go to the door, get off the head, collect and unload the luggage, and go to the back.I saw Xue'e bowing at the door of the main room.That Xue'e smiled all over her face, and said, "Okay, you're here. The road is rough and frosty, how hard it is! I haven't seen you for a while, and I'm so fat."

Lai Wangyin asked, "Where are your parents?"

Xue'e said: "Your father was invited by the two people to play outside the door today. Your aunt and elder sister are playing on the swing in the garden."

Lai Wang'er said, "ah, what's wrong with beating him?"

Xue'e poured him a cup of tea to eat with him, because she asked: "My daughter-in-law is on the stove, why don't you see me?"

That Xue'e sneered, and said: "Is your daughter-in-law still the same daughter-in-law at that time now? It's not too bad! He only plays chess with his mother every day, playing cards and wiping cards. .He is willing to work on the stove!"

Just as she was talking, Xiaoyu walked into the garden and reported to Yueniang.Yueniang came from the front, and Lai Wanger kowtowed forward and stood beside her.After asking some questions on the way back, Yueniang offered two bottles of wine.After eating, his wife Song Huilian came.Yue Niang said: "Forget it, you have worked hard, and go to the room to wash your hair and face, and go to rest for the night. Wait for your father to come, so I can see your father answering."

Then Wang'er will go back to the room.Hui Lian paid the key first and opened the door, then took some water to wash his face and spread the dust with him, packed up his bag, and said: "The thief is black and prisoner, how long has it been since I haven't seen him, and he eats so fat."

He changed his clothes and arranged meals for him.When I woke up after a nap, it was already Western time.

Ximen Qing came home, and Lai Wang'er came to see him and said, "Hangzhou weaves Taishi Cai's birthday ruler and the clothes at home. They are all ready. They are packaged and packed in four boxes. They are put on the official ship and come home. A hired husband pays taxes."

Ximenqing was full of joy, and took the money with him, and loaded it into the city tomorrow morning.He also rewarded him with five taels of silver, which was entangled in the house; he was also taught to manage comprador things.This time, Wanger has brought some personal affairs, and quietly gave Sun Xue'e two silk sweat towels, two pair of floral knee trousers, four boxes of Hangzhou powder, and twenty rouges.Xue'e told Lai Wang'er behind her back: "Since you have been away for four months, why did your wife hook up with Ximen Qing, how did Yu Xiao take the lead, and why did she make a nest in the Jinlian House. First at the bottom of the mountain, and later at the bottom of the mountain." In the house, he sleeps from day to night, and from night to night. He takes his clothes, jewelry, flowers, money, and big bags with him. The boy buys things at the door, and he spends two or three coins a day. silver."

Laiwang said: "It's strange that there are clothes and jewelry in the box! I asked him, and he said that my mother belonged to him."

Xue'e said: "The mother and him? It's the master and him!"

Wang'er then listened to it and kept it in mind.

In the evening, after drinking for a few minutes, I went back to my room.As the saying goes, after drinking, he opened the box and saw a piece of blue satin with a very strange pattern, so he asked his wife: "Where is the satin? Who owns it? Tell me the truth."

The wife didn't know it, smiled deliberately, and replied: "It's a thief prisoner, what's the matter? This is because I saw that I didn't have a jacket. I gave this piece of satin and put it in the box. I don't have time to make it. Who will give it to me?" I?"

Lai Wang'er scolded: "The thief whore! You're still playing tricks! Is the one with you?"

Then asked: "Where are these jewelry?"

The woman said: "Bah! Strange prisoner, that old man who has no mother, even if he bursts out of a rock, has a nest, and he has no relatives or relatives? This is a hairpin comb borrowed from my aunt's family. Who is with me!"

He was punched by Lai Wang'er, and he almost had sex, and said: "The thief whore, talk about it! Someone saw that you had a head and tail with that inhuman pig and dog! Why did Yuxiao girl take the lead and send satin and You, two people in the front garden, and then you hang yourself in the whore house of Pan's house, it's not worth it all day long. Thief whore, you still want to hang yourself in my hands."

Then the woman burst into tears and said, "A thief is not a good criminal! What are you doing to beat me? What did I do to you? You're not saying what you say, even throwing a brick I want a whereabouts. It's that gossip, who has no time to live, who instigated you to bully my old lady? My old lady is not that unfounded thing! I will bully you to death, and choose a clean place. You ask, the Song family My girl, if you sway your feet a little bit, turn the word "Song" upside down! You are a thief, if you can't get the wind, you will get the rain. Everything must be true. If you are taught to kill that person, you will kill it. that person?"

After a few words, Wang'er was speechless.The woman said again: "This blue satin, let me tell you more, it was also Sanniang's birthday in November last year. Mother saw that I was wearing a purple jacket and a skirt borrowed from Yuxiao, and said: "Daughter-in-law It’s weird, what does it look like?” I just bought this piece of satin from me. Who has to be idle? I don’t know that! Just rub my tongue again. You mistook my mother, and my mother is not forgiving. Swear and listen to him. I will lose my life, and I will never find the master."

Lai Wang'er said: "Since you have nothing to do with it, why do you get along well with others? Hurry up and let me sleep."

Stretching out the bed, the woman said: "It's the fault of the prisoner, who ate that yellow soup, and it made you feel better! It just made my old lady scold me."

Laiwang looted on the kang, snoring like thunder.The judge heard: All women who raise men in the world, let him be a very fine man, and if he says a few nonsense, nine out of ten will be enlightened.It's exactly: Dongjing Lizhuer---smelly and hard.

This Song Huilian lived in Lai Wanger's nest for a night.On the next day, I asked Yu Xiao from the back, whoever revealed this matter, I didn't know the reason, and I just scolded him.One day, Yueniang asked Xiaoyu to call Xue'e, but she couldn't find it anywhere.Walking to the front, I saw Xue'e coming out of Wang'er's room, only guessing to talk to his wife, not wanting to go to the kitchen, Hui Lian was cutting meat in it again, for a long time, Ximen Qing was talking with Qiao Dahu in front, just for Yangzhou Wang Sifeng, a salt merchant, was sent to prison by an envoy, Xu Yin 2000 taels, Yang Ximenqing begged for favor from Taishi Cai and released him.As soon as the big family was sent away, Ximenqing called Laiwang, who ran out of his room.It's exactly: the heron and warbler in the snow hide before they see it, and the parrot in the willow hides it before they know it.

From this, we all know that Xue'e and Lai Wang'er have a head and head.

One day, Lai Wang'er was drunk, and together with other family members, she hated Ximen Qing in front of her, saying why I was not at home, so she asked Yuxiao girl to coax my wife in the room with a piece of blue satin.Hanging him in the garden for rape, how did Pan Jinlian become the owner of the nest later: "Leave him alone, as long as he doesn't hit my hand. I taught him to go in with a white knife and come out with a red knife. Okay, let that whore of the Pan family Killed too, it’s just a death. You see, I can do what I say. That whore of Pan’s family, thinking that he killed him at home, Wu Da, his uncle Wu Song came to sue, thanks to someone who went to Tokyo to manage for him , sent Wu Song to the army? Today, I set my feet on Pingchuan Road, and I got him to take advantage of it, and even provoked my wife to raise a man. My hatred will grow with him. Don't stop, talk to me again. If you die, beat the emperor!"

Now Wang'er knows that he is talking on the road, but he doesn't know that there are people in the grass, and he doesn't want to be heard by his family members, Lai Xing'er.Now that Lai Xing'er is at home, Ximen Qingyuan sent him to be a comprador to eat and earn money to live on, but because he hooked up with Lai Wang's wife and snatched the comprador away, he taught Lai Wang'er to take care of it.Lai Xing'er was at odds with Lai Wang, and when he heard this, he quietly came to Pan Jinlian's room to tell her.

Jin Lian was sitting with Meng Yulou, when Lai Xing'er lifted the curtain and came in, Jin Lian asked Lai Xing'er, "What's the matter with you? Whose house did your father go to for a drink today?"

Lai Xing said: "Today, my father and Ying Er's father went out to send the funeral. There is one thing, tell the old man, just keep it in your heart, don't say it's a small thing."

Jin Lian said: "If you have anything to do, just talk about it, it's okay!"

Lai Xing'er said: "It's nothing to worry about. Come to Wang'er. I didn't know where to eat yesterday. I was drunk. I yelled and drank in front of me. I scolded pigs and dogs for a whole day. I also fought with the little ones. The younger one came and ignored him, and he scolded Father and Wu Niang at the elder and younger members of the family."

Pan Jinlian asked: "The root of the thief, why are you scolding me?"

Laixing said: "I dare not say it. Sanniang is here, and it's not someone else. The guy said why Dad sent him away and played with his wife, and how Wuniang was the owner of the nest to make his wife stay. In the room, he and his father slept until night, and slept until dawn. He laid down the knife to kill father and Wuniang. The white knife went in, and the red knife came out. He also said, Wuniang, let’s stay at home, and the poison killed his husband. , Thanks to him going to Tokyo to do some work and saving Wuniang’s life. Said that Wuniang will avenge her kindness and instigate his wife to raise a man. The little one wears green clothes and hugs him in black. Let’s tell Wuniang first, and sooner or later he will stop eating that fellow to plot. "

When Yulou heard this, she was astonished as if she had been lifted into a basin of cold water.This Jinlian just didn't listen, but when she heard it, her face was flushed, her silver teeth were gritted, and she cursed: "This slave who committed death! I have no grievances with him in the past, and I have no grievances with him in the past, and his master took his wife. Haunting me? If I teach this servant to be in Ximen Qing's house, he will never be considered a wife! How can I owe him for saving my life?"

Yin told Lai Xing'er: "Go now, and when your father comes home to ask you, you will just say that."

Lai Xing'er said: "Wu Niang said that! The little one is not bad for him, and he can say something. Ask me whatever you want, and it's just saying that."

After finishing speaking, go forward.

Yulou then asked Jinlian: "Is there really a relationship between his father and this daughter-in-law?"

Jin Lian said: "You ask that shameless thing! What a good wife, it's not in vain to teach slaves to coerce you like this. The slave and whore who used to be used by others, was in Cai Tong's family, and she cheated with the old woman to raise her. Han, something bad happened, so he sent out and married Jiang Cong. Not only did he meet a man? One time he counted millet, and he didn’t know what happened! In the winter, I wanted to tell you, but I didn’t tell you. On that day, the eldest sister went to Qiao Dahu’s house for a drink, and we didn’t always play chess in front of it? The girl said that his father came home, and we didn’t always play chess. Parted? After I went to the door of Yi behind, I saw Xiaoyu standing in the corridor, I asked him, Xiaoyu looked at me and waved his hands. I just walked to the garden, and I saw Yuxiao standing at the corner door. He watched the wind. I didn’t know it yet, so he taught me to walk into the garden. Yu Xiao stopped me and refused to teach me to go in, saying that my father was inside. He taught me to curse a few words. I went to Suiying and him to check the account. He didn't want to go inside. He and his wife were working in the cave. When the wife saw me go in, she came out blushing. When his father saw me, he was embarrassing. He had no shame in scolding me. He fell behind Walked into the house, knelt down on me with a whirling mill, and told me not to tell his mother. In the first month later, his father would entrust the prostitute in my house for a night. How long will you let him hang around! The slave who kills thousands of thieves, no one will drag me into it. Such a coquettish slave whore, I will let him play in that room? It’s just me, I Chunmei He also refused to tolerate that little meat."

Yulou said: "The thief stinky meat is sitting there. Seeing me, I feel like I'm indifferent. I can't afford it. Who knows that there is this account behind my back! Speaking of it, his father shouldn't want him. There If you can't find a wife, teach your slaves to promote it outside, what's it like?"

Jin Lian said: "The leather boots on the left and right are not straight. You want a slave wife, and the slave steals your little lady secretly, and they do it differently! Thieves and slaves, Qian Ye talks about people, Wan Ye talks about it, today I slapped my mouth, but I didn't say anything!"

Yulou said to Jinlian: "Let's say yes to his father about this matter, or not? The elder sister doesn't care. If you suddenly feel at ease, every time we don't say anything, his father doesn't know. What happened to him for a while? ? Sixth sister, you should talk about it."

Jin Lian said: "If I spare this slave, unless he [Ri Ri] sent me out."

It is exactly: If you don't frown in your life, there should be no teeth-gnashing people in the world.

When Ximenqing came home at night, he saw Jinlian in the room in disarray, sleeping with her cheeks open, crying with bad eyesight.Asked why, then told about Lai Wanger's drunken speech and wanting to kill the master: "Seeing that Lai Xing'er heard it in person, think about it. If you recite the map of his wife, he will secretly want your little lady. Your skin The boots are not straight. Then you should fight, what have I to do with you? Even I will be killed! If you don’t do it early, at night, people have no hindsight, and they are afraid of being murdered by him.”

Ximen Qingyin asked: "Who has a relationship with that fellow?"

Jin Lian said: "Don't come and ask me, just ask Xiaoyu and you will know."

He also said: "This slave bullied me. It's not a once-in-a-lifetime experience. He said how I used medicine to kill a man. You married me, and he was looking for favors to save my life. He told people outside. He was a slave for a long time. Didn't give birth to a son or a daughter. If you gave birth to a son or daughter, would you teach the thieves and slaves to say something nice? Dare to say: "When your mother was at home and had no land, I saved his life because of my favors." Your face is also dull! You have no shame, but I can't make it, what do you want to do with your life?"

After hearing what the woman said, Ximen Qing went to the front, called Future Xing'er to a place where no one was around, and asked him why.The boy said it all over again.He went to the back again and asked Xiaoyu what he said, which was exactly the same as what Jinlian said: one day, I saw Xue'e come out of Wang'er's room with my own eyes.This Ximen Qing was furious, beat Sun Xue'e, Yueniang persuaded him again and again, tied his clothes, and only taught him to go to the stove with his family and daughter-in-law, and he was not allowed to see anyone.This matter is beyond the question.

Ximenqing was behind, and because Yuxiao called Song Huilian, he asked him behind his back.The mother-in-law said: "Ah, father, your old man didn't say anything, he didn't say that. I made a big oath on his behalf. He drank wine for two minutes, how dare he be so bold as to scold father behind his back? He also eats King Zhou's water and soil, and says that King Zhou has no way! Where does he live on? Dad, don't listen to people's words. Let me ask Dad, who did you hear say this?"

That Ximenqing was speechless by his mother-in-law.Asking anxiously, he said, "It was Lai Xing'er who told me."

Huilian said: "Lai Xing'er, because my father called me a comprador, saying that every time I rob him, I can't make some money to make this hatred, and spray him with blood, and my father believed it. He I will not forgive him for this deceitful thing. Father, please follow me, don’t teach him to spend a few taels of money with him at home, teach him to be trustworthy, stay away from his hometown, and go to business. He will go out, sooner or later It’s easier for dad to talk to me.”

Ximen Qing was full of joy when he heard this, and said, "My son, what I said is true. I intend to send him to Tokyo to have a relationship with the salt merchant Wang Sifeng Yang Cai Taishi. When he came home, he made him feel bad, so I called Laibao to pay the bill. Since you said so, I will send him tomorrow. When I come back, I will teach him to collect 1000 taels of silver and go to Hangzhou with the supervisor to sell silk and silk threads for making. Buy and sell. What do you think?"

The wife was overjoyed and said, "It would be good if Dad waited like this."

While talking, Ximen Qing saw that there was no one, so he hugged him and kissed him.The mother-in-law hurriedly put her tongue in his mouth, and the two smacked together.The woman said: "Father, you allowed me to weave a bun, why don't you weave it for me? How long will you wear it if you don't wear it? Just teach me to wear this hair shell all day long?"

Ximen Qing said: "It doesn't matter, tomorrow I will transfer eight taels of silver to the silversmith's house to pull the silk for you."

Ximenqing said again: "I'm afraid your aunt will ask, how can I answer?"

The woman said: "It doesn't matter. I have something to say to send him. I just ask my aunt's family to borrow Dai Dai. What are you afraid of?"

Immediately, the two had a conversation, and they dispersed.

On the next day, Ximen Qing was sitting in the living room and called Wang Er: "Pack up your clothes and luggage, get up on March 28 tomorrow, and go to Tokyo for favors with Taishi Cai. When you come back, I will send you to Hangzhou for business."

Laiwang was overjoyed at this time, agreed to come down, went back to his room to pack his luggage, and went out to buy personnel.Lai Xing'er inquired and found out, so he came to report to Jin Lian.Jin Lian inquired that Ximen Qing was in the rolling shed in the garden. When she went there, she didn't see Ximen Qing, but Chen Jingji was sealing gifts there.Jin Lian asked, "Where is your father? What did you seal?"

Jing Ji said: "Father was here just now, and went to Da Niang to exchange the salt merchant Wang Sifeng's silver. I sealed the gift to Grand Master Cai in Tokyo."

Jin Lian asked, "Who are you sending?"

Jingji said: "I heard yesterday that my father told Lai Wanger to go."

The golden lotus just got off the platform and was walking towards the road to the garden, when Ximen Qing came to bring the silver.Called him into the house and asked him, "Who are you going to send to Tokyo tomorrow?"

Ximen Qing said: "Lai Wang'er and Director Wu are going together. Because there is a thousand taels of silver from the salt merchant Wang Sifeng, two more go."

The woman said: "Follow your heart, you don't follow what I say, until you listen to the slave whore whore speaks alone. He asks what's the matter, and only protects his man. It's not a day since the slave spoke first. The left and right wives threw it at you, cheated you of this money, and the abducted one stopped and took it off at the other end. Seeing that my brother's eyes are empty. You lost it for nothing. It's hard for others to pay 1000 taels of silver. Don't be afraid. You don’t pay him back. I say it’s in your heart, and I’m up to you. The wife is just for him for no reason. I don’t want you to be greedy for his wife. It’s not good for you to keep him at home, and it’s not good for you to send him out to do business. He's at home, so you don't have these guards against him sooner or later. If you send him outside, he's costing you money. First of all, you can't say no to him. If you want him to be a slave wife, you might as well send him out of the house first. As the saying goes: If you cut the grass and don’t remove the roots, the sprouts will still grow; if you cut the grass and remove the roots, the sprouts will never grow again. Even if you don’t worry about it, your wife will be determined.”

A few words, Ximen Qing woke up drunk.Exactly: a few words to clear the way of a gentleman, a few words to remind the dreamer.

(End of this chapter)