Jinpingmei

Chapter 44

The word says: The day and the day shift the shade, wrap up the clothes, and sleep well with the spring curtain.Lin Baojian and the green servant girls are in a mess, and they haven't restrained their attire.

The yellow of the butterfly powder and bee has faded, and the pillow marks are red and jade.The back is painted, the pulse is quiet and silent, looking for a chess game.

It is said that Jingji people are eating wine with Fu's buddy, Wu Dajin's sedan chair comes, and she wants to go home after packing.Yueniang kept the money again and again, and said: "Sister-in-law stay one more night, let's go tomorrow."

Wu Dajin said: "I have been at Qiao's house for three or four days. There is no one at home, and your brother has something to do in the yamen, so I can't be at home. I will go. Tomorrow, all the girls are invited to sit with me. In the evening, go to the house of the sick children."

Yue Niang said: "Tomorrow, we just go later in the evening."

Wu Dajin said: "Miss, go in a sedan chair earlier, and come home with me in the evening."

After finishing speaking, I packed a box of Lantern Festival and a box of steamed buns, and called Lai An'er to send the eldest concubine home.Sister Li Gui and the other four kowtowed, said goodbye to Yueniang, and wanted to go home.Yue Niang said: "Why are you panicking? You are going to go now, waiting for your father to come home. He told me to keep you, if he still has something to say to you, I dare not let you go."

Sister Gui said: "Father is going to drink, how long should we come home late? Why are we waiting for him! Mother will teach me and Sister Wu Yin to go first. The two of them only came today. We have been here for two days. Mom is still at home." I don't know how to look forward to it!"

Yue Niang said: "Ke Ke is what your mother is looking forward to, can't you wait this night?"

Sister Li Gui said: "My mother is right. There is no one in my family, and my sister is surrounded by others. I would rather bring an instrument and sing to my mother. Mother will let the slave go."

Just as he was talking, Chen Jingji came in, handed over the remaining rewards, and said: "The Qiao family and each family will be rewarded with a penny for sticking sedan chairs. A total of ten bags were used, weighing three liang. Here are the remaining ten bags."

Yueniang took it.Sister Gui then said, "My uncle and uncle, have you seen our sedan chair outside?"

Jingji said: "Only his two sedan chairs. Yours and Miss Yin's sedan chairs didn't come. I don't know who has gone back from the beginning."

Sister Gui said, "Uncle, are you really coming back? You're coaxing me!"

Then Chen Jingji said: "If you don't believe it, it doesn't look like it! I won't coax you."

Just before I finished speaking, I saw the Qin boy hugged into the felt bag and said, "Father's house is here!"

Yueniang said: "It's because you didn't go, it's not your father who came here."

After a while, Ximen Qing came in with seven or eight cents of wine.Walking into the room and sitting down, Dong Jiaoer and Han Yuchuaner kowtowed forward.Ximen Qing asked Yueniang, "Everyone is gone, why don't you teach him how to sing?"

Yue Niang said: "They are begging me here to go home."

Ximen Qing said to Sister Gui: "You and Yin'er also sent away after the festival. Let's send him both."

Yue Niang said: "How? I told you that you don't believe me, just like I coaxed you."

Sister Gui lowered her face bitterly and said nothing.Ximen Qing asked Dai'an, "Have his two sedan chairs been here?"

Dai'an said: "Only Dong Jiaoer and Han Yuchuan'er are waiting in two sedan chairs."

Ximen Qing said: "I don't drink anymore. Bring your musical instruments and sing "Ten Duan Jin Er" to me. Send the two of them to go first."

The four singers at present, Li Guijie played the pipa, Wu Yiner played the zither, Han Yuchuan played the ruan, Dong Jiaoer played the emergency drum, and sang "Ten Duanjin" "28 Half Sections" Wu Yueniang, Li Jiaoer, and Meng Yulou , Pan Jinlian, and Li Ping'er were all sitting in the room listening to the singing.

After singing, Ximenqing gave money to Han Yuchuan and Dong Jiaoer, and went out. "Leave Sister Li Gui and Wu Yin'er, let's rest here."

Suddenly, Dai'an'er and Qin Tong'er heard the commotion in front of them, they surrounded Xia Hua'er in Li Jiao'er's room and came in, and told Ximen Qing, "The little one just sent the two singers out, and went to the stable with a lantern. I saw Xia Hua'er in Erniang's room hiding under the manger, which made the little one jump. I don't know why, every time the little one asks him, he doesn't say anything."

When Ximenqing heard it, he went out and sat on a chair in the corridor outside, while asking Qin Tong'er to drag the girl down to her knees.Ximen Qing asked him: "What are you doing going forward? That girl didn't say a word. Li Jiaoer said beside her: "I won't let you, what are you doing in the stable for nothing? "

Seeing him in a panic, Ximen Qing only said that the girl was going to leave, and ordered the servants to search him.Qin Tong pulled him to the ground, only to hear the sound of surfing, and something fell from his waist.Ximen Qing asked, "What is it?"

Dai'an handed it over, but it suddenly turned out to be an ingot of gold.Ximen Qing looked at it under the lamp, and said, "It's the ingot of gold that was missing from his head. So it was you, the slave, who stole it."

He said, "It was picked up."

Ximen Qing asked, "Where did you pick it up?"

He didn't speak again.Ximenqing was furious, and ordered Qintong to come forward to fetch the slap, and slapped the girl up, like killing a pig with a slap.After knocking for half a day, they knocked twenty more.Seeing that he had wine, Yueniang dared not persuade him.The girl couldn't bear it, so Fang said, "I picked it up in Liu Niang's room."

Ximen Qingfang ordered Xizi to be released, and then ordered Li Jiaoer to lead him into the house: "Tomorrow, ask the matchmaker to sell this slave to me immediately, what else do you want to keep!"

Li Jiaoer didn't have anything to say, and said: "You thief slave, who told you to come forward? You went out without knowing it. You just picked up the gold in his house and told me!"

That summer flower just cried.Li Jiaoer said: "It's good to kill you slave, you're still crying!"

After Ximen Qing said, he handed over the gold to Yueniang to collect it, and then went to Li Ping'er's room in front.

Yueniang ordered Xiaoyu to close the door of the ceremony, and asked Yuxiao because she asked, "Is this girl in the head coming forward too?"

Xiaoyu said: "Second Niang and San Niang accompanied the elder sister-in-law to go to Liu Niang, and he also followed. Who knew that he stole this ingot of gold in his hand without knowing it. I heard Niang say , Dad sent the boy to buy wolf tendons, and if he was bluffing, he would ask me in the kitchen: "What is wolf tendon?" I stole something, and if I didn’t take it out, I pulled out my wolf’s tendons and wrapped it around that person, with all my hands and feet together!’ He saw us and said, he must have panicked, and went out to sing in the evening, When I was about to leave, I saw someone at the gate, so I hid in the stable. I didn’t want to be seen by the servant again.”

Yueniang said: "Go and see people there! You little girl, you know, she's such a thug, she's not a Taiwanese kid."

Let's talk about Li Jiao'er leading Xia Hua'er into the room, and Li Gui's sister said Xia Hua'er: "You are a stupid child! You are fifteen or sixteen years old, and you know some things about people, but you are still so ignorant! If you want me inside, It can’t be used. There is no one here, so you picked up some things and quietly handed them to your mother in the room. Just get them out, and he can save you by the side. Why don’t you watch him write a word? Just now How about waiting? Clean and silly girl! As the saying goes: Wear green clothes and hug Hei Zhu. You are not from his house, so I don’t care about you. Is your mother’s face bright or not when the wait is holding you back just now? "

He also said his girl: "You are not very handsome. If I were me, how could I teach him to slap the girl in my room to everyone? If not, pull him into the room and wait for me to beat him. In the first few rooms Why don't you yell at the girl, you only yell at the girl in your room! You are easy to bully, but you have no breath in your nose and mouth? Wait until tomorrow, teach him to pull this girl out, and you won't say anything Tell me? Don’t tell me, wait for me. Hugh teach him to take it out and teach others to joke. Look at the Meng family and the Pan family, both of them are like foxes, how can you fight him!”

Because Xia Hua'er was called over, she asked him, "Are you going out or not?"

The girl said: "I won't go out."

Sister Gui said: "If you don't go out, you will stick to your mother's heart from now on. You and him must agree on everything. No matter what you take, give it to him. It will also praise you like Yuanxiao."

That Xia Hua'er said: "Sister ordered, I understand."

Click here to instigate Xia Hua'er without question.

Let's say that Ximenqing went to Li Ping'er's room in front and saw Li Ping'er and Wu Yin'er sitting together on the kang, so he wanted to undress and go to sleep.Li Ping'er said: "Sister Yin is here, there is no place for you, let's just live with the family."

Ximen Qing said: "Why is there no room? Your mother is on both sides, just wait for me to sleep in the middle."

Li Ping'er glanced at him and said, "Just talk about it."

Ximen Qing said, "Where do I sleep now?"

Li Ping'er said: "Go to Sixth Sister's place and sleep overnight."

Ximen Qing sat for a while, got up and said: "Forget it, let it be! For the sake of disturbing your girls, I'll sleep in the room over there."

So I kept walking past Jinlian.When Jin Lian heard Ximen Qing come into the room, it was like falling from the sky, and she went forward to undress and untie with him, spread out the bed, spread out the silk, had tea, and the two of them went to bed to rest.

Li Ping'er sent Ximen Qing out here, and Wu Yin'er and Wu Yin'er put the Kang table under the lamp, placed the chess pieces, and sat opposite each other to play chess.Instruct Yingchun: "Take a fruit box and sieve the sweet Jinhua wine into a pot. Sister Yin and I will eat."

Yin asked: "Sister Yin, do you eat? Teach him to serve rice for you to eat."

Wu Yin'er said: "Mother, I'm not hungry, so don't ask sister Sheng to come."

Li Ping'er said: "Forget it. Sister Yin doesn't eat, so you take a box lid. I'll pick out some fruit pies in the makeup. Come and eat with Sister Yin."

After a while, Yingchun was taken and put aside.Li Ping'er and Wu Yin'er played three games of chess, sifted wine, and took Yin Zhong'er to drink together.Wu Yin'er called Yingchun: "Sister, pass me the pipa, and I'll sing a tune for my mother to listen to."

Li Ping'er said: "Sister, don't sing. The little official is asleep. His father is listening to him and teaching him. Let's play dice."

So Jiao Yingchun handed over the color basin, and the two rolled dice to gamble on wine for fun.After throwing it once, Wu Yin'er called Yingchun: "Sister, you have invited a nanny to come to teach him how to eat bell wine."

Yingchun said: "He is sleeping on the kang over there with his brother in his arms."

Li Ping'er said: "Teach him to sleep with the child in his arms. Just take a mug of wine and give it to him to eat. You don't know how clever I am, a little official. I wake up as soon as people leave him. One day, in the I slept on the kang here, his father moved a little here, and then he opened his eyes and woke up, as if he knew it. Teach the grandma to carry him to the room over there, just cry, as long as I hug him."

Wu Yin'er said with a smile: "Mother has a brother, so I can sleep with my father comfortably. How many days does my father come to this room for a walk?"

Li Ping'er said: "It doesn't matter to him, he doesn't know what happened once, and he doesn't know what happened twice. He often goes into the house, and because of this child, it doesn't matter if he sees it or not. It makes people angry. Take his father It's Bai Zhanzhan who cursed this kid behind his back. Needless to say, I just talk to him. Who has anything to do with him? It's better if he doesn't come to me. The next day I teach people how to beautify, just say Let's stop the man. Like when I came into the house just now, I urged him to go out. You don't know, Sister Yin, my family has a lot of tongues, and because I didn't see this ingot of gold today, if you had seen it, you would have been angry. I called your aunt in the back, saying that you brought gold into my house, why did it disappear? I’m behind, I don’t think it’s because the girl in your second mother’s house stole it, so it’s so indiscriminate. Otherwise, it’s only in my house that the ghost is tied. Girl, grandma, and old Feng. Mama Feng cried anxiously, as long as she wanted to die, she said: "If I don't have this gold, I won't go home either." When we see gold later, we will go to Deng's house."

Wu Yin'er said: "Mother, it doesn't matter. You look at my father's face, you watch my brother and pass slowly, wherever you go! There is nothing to say about the aunt behind. It's just that others saw that mother gave birth to a brother. It's a little bit angry. It's good that the old man has some masters."

Li Ping'er said: "If it weren't for your father and your aunt to look at it, this child would not be alive today. While talking, you clocked me a cup, and I didn't realize that I sat until the third watch weather before I rested. It is exactly: Proud customers never get tired of coming, and bosom friends agree with each other.

(End of this chapter)